A North London gang have recently been handed down custodial sentences for their part in a massive competence card fraud ring. Their crimes related to many types of card, but are understood to include a significant number of construction industry competence cards. More can be learnt from the PP Construction safety website.
This reinforces my suggestion that we should encourage managers to destroy the competence cards of operatives who are found acting outside the accepted good practice for their trade or activity. A MEWP driver operating unsafely is a hazard to others as well as to himself. If we destroy his IPAF card he will at least have to re-train to continue work and might even take the training more seriously.
