12th October 2011, 07:38 PM
Martin Locock Wrote:I understand, but I believe this is the only way out of the Low standards of practice / Lack of enforceable standards / Poor pay and conditions loop that has been running since 1990 or whenever. At present there is no remedy which can prevent a consistently extremely bad practitioner from damaging the archaeological resource, and if we subscribe to the rhetoric that the resource is finite, irreplaceable and important, then I think we have to accept a degree of control on our actions.
Time then for IFA to clean shop and get rid of all the members/RAOs covered by your list above (we all know of plenty of cases, no point pretending it doesn't happen)? Standards, conditions etc are not noticeably different (if at all) inside and outside the IFA universe, commercial considerations are far more important to most management. If mine thought there was any advantage to being a RAO they'd apply like a shot, but there isn't, stuff like ISOs are far more relevent and more likely to get work from hard-nosed construction managers