mmm so so, it seems to be operational preparedness that might lack in some people...which means not doing things often enough to get it drilled into the mind. Everyones capable, just the environment around them seems to dictate how much they succeed at being capable.
Thats a very hard question to answer, without offending people. So ill take the 50/50 Eddie
I'm more than happy to offend people. As much as we are a volunteer organisation, we are also an emergency service. There needs to be a level of proficiency that each member maintains in order to function as part of a team. Rather than vote someone in who is not competent, just because we don't want to upset them, we need to look at their effect upon the team and what can happen at an incident.
I understand that there is a fine line between needing people and picking and choosing, but there and numerous examples where people have been voted in/put on courses etc etc when simply enough they should not have been allowed to.
