Hi we are currently in the process of face fitting all of our operatives. We often call in labourers from an agency,is it our responsibility to face fit them or the agency? We are a sub contractor working for principal contractors,at the moment we face fit the labourers to comply with our clients policies but as you can imagine we work nationwide and trying to get to a labour in different parts of the country on sometimes the same day is not cost effective. I believe there may also be an issue with the labourers thinking they can use the cert we issue with different masks working for different people. I have delivered non accredited fit to fit training to two supervisors who are working with numerous labourers so that we do not have to keep travelling up and down the country. The training I delivered to the supervisors was more in depth than the accredited training I received from a leading face mask manufacturer. i.e I carried out two face fits teaching the supervisor step by step then let him carry out a test whilst I observed, is this adequate training???? Bearing in mind my training involved watching the trainer do a mock test. Any suggestions Thank you With kind regards Julian

Clive, Thank you for your feedback. I've got all the information on the certificates i.e names, mask, type, make, model and info on the fact that wearing a certain type of mask with facial hair may reduce the effectiveness of the mask plus the fact that they can only wear the mask stated on the Cert.(basically a copy of the Cert that's issued with the new kit) I'm happy that our supervisor is competent, each supervisor is given training as detailed and issued with a new face fit test kit . I was more worried about the "fit to fit accredited"scenario would be brought up by principal contractors. Also any ideas why not all principal contractors are asking for all those who wear a mask to be face fitted, we've also found that one site will ask and another site from the same company will not ask. Regards Julian