ATSEP.OR.400 ATSEP training instructors
Regulation (EU) 2017/373
A service provider employing ATSEP shall ensure that:
(a) ATSEP training instructors are suitably experienced in the field where instruction is to be given;
(b) on-the-job training instructors have successfully completed an on-the-job-training course and have the skills to intervene in instances where safety may be compromised during the training.
ATSEP.OR.405 Technical skills assessors
Regulation (EU) 2017/373
A service provider employing ATSEP shall ensure that technical skills assessors have successfully completed an assessor course and are suitably experienced to assess the criteria defined in point ATSEP.OR.305(b).
AMC1 ATSEP.OR.405 Technical-skill assessors
ED Decision 2020/020/R
EXPERIENCE
To be considered suitably experienced, technical skills assessors should:
(a) have clear understanding of the service provider’s assessment process and procedures applicable;
(b) have clear understanding of the performance required of the ATSEP during the assessment and/or on-going assessment;
(c) have the ability to evaluate, in an objective and independent manner, whether the ATSEP has achieved or is maintaining the level of performance required;
(d) have the ability to assess and, if required, act when intervention is necessary to ensure that safety is not compromised;
(e) have the ability to analyse and accurately describe and/or record strengths and weaknesses of an ATSEP performance; and
(f) use appropriate interpersonal and communication skills to brief and debrief an ATSEP, if required.
GM1 ATSEP.OR.405 Technical skills assessors
ED Decision 2017/001/R
The technical skills assessor is the person who is considered suitable to determine whether an ATSEP is technically competent to operate, maintain, release from and return into operations systems that are necessary for the provision of services. This assessment may be in any context where assessment of technical skills is required, e.g. assessment of first competence, ongoing competence.
GM2 ATSEP.OR.405 Technical-skill assessors
ED Decision 2020/020/R
(a) Where a technical-skill assessor works regularly with an ATSEP and he or she is required to assess the ATSEP, then continuous assessment may be appropriate, i.e. assessment may be achieved by the technical assessor observing the standard of an ATSEP’s work on a continuous basis during normal operational duties. In that case, the technical-skill assessor should inform the ATSEP of when they will be assessed.
(b) If the appointed technical assessor also acts as line manager to the individual ATSEP, the service provider should have in place a process to reduce biases. Responsibility for determining competence lies with the person having the safety accountability for the ATSEP function.