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Encouraging staff to attain their licence

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Encouraging staff to attain their licence

Employers and managers are expected to encourage staff engaged in the relevant categories of work to obtain IRSE Licences and to grant the facilities for doing so.

Employers should provide their staff with log books meeting the requirements of the Licensing Scheme and encourage and assist staff to complete and maintain those log books, to record their qualifications, training and experience.

Employers are expected to assist staff to gain the necessary experience in order to meet all the performance criteria of the licence category being sought, and to provide facilities in the workplace for assessments to be carried out.

Responsibilities for the surveillance process

Employers are expected to review the work of those of their staff who are licence holders, at least annually, as part of their normal competence management strategy, to ensure that they continue to consistently work to the standards required

The periodic review should include an examination of the licence holder’s log book to check that the records of work experience and other information is accurate and up to date. The certifier should annotate the entries to indicate that the check has been made, and should record their name, contact details and relationship to the licence holder.

If the employer finds that the licence holder has not maintained the necessary competencies for any of the categories of work included on the licence, the Licensing Registrar should be informed as soon as possible.