This week we look at the PGDB consultation on Supervision.

We can't bury our head in the sand as supervision is an important issue!! Some people support it and some are against it, and then again, some just don’t understand it.

Supervision helps set the standard in our industry and if it is applied wrongly then it will take us nowhere. Supervision is simply a relationship between senior and junior members of our industry and helps enhance the skills of the junior person, and monitors the quality of the services offered.

Currently, the Board are consulting on supervision, but the Act already states WHAT supervision is and WHO can do it. Supervision means that the work is undertaken under the control and direction of a person authorised under this Act to do the work. The Board does not have the statutory authority to change this definition.
The Board claim this is a review of the existing “Supervision Policy”, but we are suspicious as it has only been in place just over 12 months, so why is it being reviewed already? Is it perhaps that the existing policy empowers the Board over and above their statutory authority?

Read on and get our thoughts and we want your feedback for our final submission.

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/fellow-practitioners-update/41/fellow-practitioner-issue-176-dated-11-october-2013/1561/

hi guys/Watchdog, it`s called `revenue gathering`cheers

hi guys, totally agree Jax, if it`s not broken why try to fix it, of course we all know that by trying to fix it they completely broke it, totally incompetent and empire building, cheers