<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by parnel:
Just went through YEG security where there were seven people working one belt and a lineup that was ten minutes long and growing.
What a bunch of hooey. I watched the activities and figured three people max could have managed that belt effectively.
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When you say seven people were working one belt, are you also counting the greeter, the wand/magnetometer operator and the ETD (bomb detetor swabbie) operator?
For one belt we require a minimum of five screeners. One for door, one for ETD, one for magnetometer and two on x-ray/bag-check. We can open a second lane with eight people. The supervisor, if s/he is on the point, is not counted in this total because s/he doesn't do screening work.
Edit: I should also note that training can make it look like we have inflated numbers. The new training regime is taking forever to implement properly so we have a lot of partially trained screeners who still need a lot of hand-holding.
[This message has been edited by CATSA Screener (edited 07-09-2003).]