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HOW TO ANSWER HARD INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
knowledge, not just record the fact that they’d been informed. For example: ‘Can the employee demonstrate the location of and correct usage of the red emergency stop button?’ and ‘Can the employee demonstrate the correct personal protective equipment they must wear and how to use it?’ I also flagged up the fact that we had team leaders who were signing off people as competent on a machine or process that they themselves had not been trained on. After a discussion with the members of the intervention team, we made this one of our key recommendations of the project. As a result, each team leader was tasked with rewriting each of the competency profiles in use in their area and they also had to be signed off as competent on each machine or process that they were signing other people off on.