Extra reports

THERE has been some confusion in the field about Supplementary Assessment Reports. A Supplementary Assessment Report should be raised if a person will not meet the minimum observation period of four months required for the raising of a Performance Assessment Report (PAR).

This may be because of a posting, to record a person’s performance in a significant secondary appointment, not covered in the individual’s annual PAR, or when they are seconded, deployed, attached or posted for a period of time away from their normal assessor.

Supplementary assessments should not be raised to cover the same information supplied in an annual PAR. A hard copy of the completed supplementary report should be submitted to DPO-AF/DPA for presentation at the promotion board.

For more information, contact Flight Lieutenant Mia Ploughman on (02) 6265 2220 or mia.ploughman@defence.gov.au.

Drug testers tested

A RECENT usual weekly update from Director, Personnel Capability Management turned into a random drug test for some of the people who are responsible for developing the ADF’s drug policy, training the drug testers and doing some of the drug tests themselves.

The drug testers – a leading aircraftman medical assistant and a warrant officer – conducted the random drug testing. Five of the staff from Personnel Capability Management were tested, including some from the team responsible for the ADF’s drug work.

After receiving an informative brief on the testing process given by the warrant officer, the staff were counted. Five green discs for the lucky people who were to undergo the test and enough red discs for the rest of the crew were put into a bag and they each took a disc.

Those who picked up a red disc had to return to their duties. The rest of the staff sat in the meeting room, chatting and waiting their turn to be tested. One by one they were ushered into the toilet and required to provide urine sample. That sample was tested and then they were allowed to go back to work.

A long look

Personnel staff recently found themselves on the receiving end of a random drug test.

EXERCISE Long Look is an opportunity of a lifetime for most participants, a chance to be an ambassador for the Air Force in the United Kingdom. Successful applicants will serve for about four months in a Royal Air Force unit.

The exercise aims to broaden members’ experience through interaction with RAF people, equipment and procedures. In spare time there will be an opportunity to explore the UK and perhaps even to visit European countries.

The exchange is primarily targeted at senior non-commissioned officers, but there are also opportunities for some junior officers. For many people it will be their only non-operational overseas experience. Watch out for calls for expression of interest that will soon be out.

Exercise Long Look 2005 will be held from May to September 2005. You have to be in it to win it, so have a go.

 

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