I have held CompEX since 1994.
I went to Roxby in Stallingthorpe, Immingham, last week and the Refresher course is 'murder'. It never used to be like this and have always paassed comfortably. But they have introduced this 'generating work order' to do repairs to faults and the whole strucure of the format is horrendous. Not least the time allotted to do it. I know I have failed this part of the course. What annoys me is that we got no course notes except for the usual Toolbox Guide. What I could have done with is the slides that were on the overhead projector. If anyone has these I would be grateful. And if that wasn't bad enough, the whole CompEX refresher was based on photographs and NOT real hazardous area equipment in booths/bays etc. like I always knew.
I have always gone to HOTA in Hull to do the course refresher, but now, they do NOT offer the refresher course, only the full 5-day course.
I have 24 years working offshore and in the harzardous area industry. This could spell the end for me.
Again, if anyone has any course notes and examples on how to make out work orders for carry out repairs of particular faults, I would be extremely grateful. Of course I know how to do this, but its WHAT to put WHERE in the boxes in the fields as below.
The format of the repair list had the following:
Problem: (the report from a visual, close or detailed inspection)
Requirment:
Issues to Consider:
Preperation:
Proposed Repair:
Completion: