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ADR scanner Fails exams
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Hazchem drivers could fail the DR exam because of bungled
-narking. Guy Sheppard reports. Barcelona's pickup pace ILINDREDS Of drivers who ieed the ADR certificate to carry langerous goods could be failing he exam because their papers Lave been marked incorrectly, says (en Wannell, director of Safety iolutions in Somerset. He blames ncompetence and carelessness by L'ity & Guilds for the problem. vhich has also been highlighted by he Freight Transport Association.
have had several cases in the )ast few months of failures which ,hould have been passes,"Wannell .eports. "If you take what I am loing as a training provider, iationally it could be running into iundreds who are failing and ;hould have been passed."
City & Guilds says it strongly idvises training providers not to )ut answer sheets for different iersions of the ADR exam in a ;ingle batch, but an investigation shows Safety Solutions did this recently.
"Our scanner which marks the answer sheets electronically was set for a specific version of the exam paper and did not recognise that two of the papers were for another version of the paper," says spokeswoman Oksana Higglesden.
However Chris MacRae, FTA training and policy manager for dangerous goods, says this is the second time within five years that problems with ADR exam marking have come to light: "This is a desperately important matter. It happened before and things really did get better but now history is repeating itself. "The person that suffers at the end of the day is the individual driver."
Higglesden says manual checking procedures have been stepped up to reduce the risk of mistakes.