Posted By willhiem In the past while I’ve been preparing a few submissions for various tasks, But it strikes me that the people who prepare such application forms and documents haven’t the slightest idea about what they are asking and generally lift the questions out of different pieces of legislation on guidance on such. Some of the questions that are asked don’t relate at all to the topic. I find it hard to stomach the fact that you have to answer these questions, which are a pretty useless way in determining who should get the contract, when the questions you are trying to answer are wrong!! so its a case of trying to answer an irrelevant or wrong question in a way which wont rule you out of the running. What’s more I wonder about the competence of people deciding on who gets these contracts, it brings back that whole question of how can somebody who has no knowledge of H & S judge competence of people who have, how do they evaluate the answers given in the submissions. Could this be a role for IOSH to look at providing guidance to Local Authorities, Government Dept etc on what to ask? And what to look for? Because at the minute i wouldn’t be at all surprised to find Q. What is your Favourite colour? or Q. Blur or Oasis? (Yes that’s goin back a bit, but so are their questions!!)

Posted By Paul Bellis Willhiem Sorry just read you post in full -and realised you were saying the same thing in part - I went off on one and responded immediately without reading properly, as I agree !