19th April 2010, 09:22 PM
I was thinking perhaps something along the lines of this scheme for electricians might work - http://www.niceic.com
Those registered with the scheme are accredited and so their work does not need the same level of checking by Building regs (as far as I understand it). This is presumably self regulating in some way but I assume is accepted by Building Regs because it saves them a lot of trouble and cost.
Imagine a similar scheme for archaeologists - the county points developers in the direction of a list of similarly 'accredited' archaeologists - lets call them RAOs (Reliable Archaeological Organisations), they are considered likely to present no problems for the curator so cutting down on their workload and costs of monitoring, and allowing them to check more throughly those who they are less sure of. Of course, this would mean that the accreditation system was accepted by all, affordable, and transparent. A possibility? Since sorting out anything in archaeology is like herding cats I doubt it, plus I'm sure there a any number of people waiting to point out problems with this idea! If it works in another industry surely it's not that difficult.
Those registered with the scheme are accredited and so their work does not need the same level of checking by Building regs (as far as I understand it). This is presumably self regulating in some way but I assume is accepted by Building Regs because it saves them a lot of trouble and cost.
Imagine a similar scheme for archaeologists - the county points developers in the direction of a list of similarly 'accredited' archaeologists - lets call them RAOs (Reliable Archaeological Organisations), they are considered likely to present no problems for the curator so cutting down on their workload and costs of monitoring, and allowing them to check more throughly those who they are less sure of. Of course, this would mean that the accreditation system was accepted by all, affordable, and transparent. A possibility? Since sorting out anything in archaeology is like herding cats I doubt it, plus I'm sure there a any number of people waiting to point out problems with this idea! If it works in another industry surely it's not that difficult.