Hey, Bill this Britain, you know.
Everything is done on the cheap. That’s why we have pretend police officers waddling around our “communities” instead of real ones!
Years ago the army tried something similar by introducing the “Electro-Mechanic” to assist the fully-fledged “Control Equipment Technician”. We used to call CET’s “ECE’s”, so the Electro-Mechanic became, predictably enough, the “ECE’s Mate”. Although I was lucky enough never to encounter one of these poor blighters (who were, of course, regarded as failed technicians, and apparently most of them literally were), I believe that the idea, shall we say, withered on the vine. Yes, it’s all been tried before.
How can we, at one end keep banging-on about building up the profession (you know, introducing a seemingly never-ending series of societies, forums, needs for university degrees and all the rest), whilst at the same time stand aside and let semi-trained supernumerary technicians take on more and more of the work. Sounds like a paradox to me!
And the suggestion that you don’t need to understand what you’re doing to carry out PM needs to be shot down straight away. The person who said that surely is the one who doesn’t understand what PM of medical equipment is all about. Probably an academic type who has never actually done the work, I suppose?
This needs to be resisted, Brothers!
