How to Improve the Quality of MOT Control Checks

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How to Improve the Quality of MOT Control Checks
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How to Improve the Quality of MOT Control Checks

• The MOT test is conducted by the ministry of
  transportation to ensure that all the vehicles
  that drive on the road are safe to use. As per
  the law, all the vehicles that are 3 years old
  need to pass this test every year. In which a
  detailed 45-60 minutes long test is conducted by
  the experienced staff to ensure if the vehicle is
  in the best state to go to the road or not. The
  government has eased the process by the
  availability of local test centers. But
  maintaining the quality of assessment in all
  these centers is critical.
• Following are the things that can be done to
  improve the quality of MOT control checks.

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Improvement in existing Standards

• There is always some risk attached to everything.
  A potential risk in MOT test standards is that.
  No matter how effective the standards are, there
  are always some people who find different
  loopholes in the testing standards to manipulate
  it. And use it for their own purpose. Which
  becomes a major flaw in the system leads to poor
  quality. But the continuous improvement in the
  standards and patterns can avoid the trend
  identification for poor testers.

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Regular check on test centers

• Assessment of Test centers is as important as the
  assessment of the individuals who appear for the
  MOT assessment test. Quality of the test centers
  can be maintained by keeping a check on their
  performance and evaluation on the set criteria.
  It will not only help in the implementation of
  the same assessment procedure for every
  individual. But will also help to find out areas
  that a test center need to improve. Hence, all
  the test centers will be equal and the quality of
  the test qualifying candidates will also be the
  same.

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Training for the Staff

• Training of the staff that is used to work on the
  test centers is also important. It is possible
  that the staff working on one test center is more
  qualified and trained as compared to another one.
  This can lead to a difference in the quality of
  candidates. As well as the subjectivity of the
  individuals who assess. Therefore, a solution to
  this problem is to set a training program that is
  applicable to every person in the staff. So that
  all of the staff will be trained at a set
  standard.

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Availability of all equipment

• Availability of equipment at the test center can
  also be a differentiating fact. That can lead to
  the difference in the assessment. Therefore,
  another things that can be done to improve the
  quality at MOT tests, is to ensure that all the
  centers have set of equipment available for test.
  Brake pedal device, gas analyzers, decelerometer,
  aim testers, diesel smoke meters etc. these are
  all the equipment that should be available at the
  test centers.

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Detailed Ranking for Test Centers

• There are already some rankings introduced by the
  regulatory departments. That include red, amber
  and green rankings. Which is kept in between the
  department and test centers after the evaluation
  of centers. But these rankings are generic in a
  way as they do not guide the tester more about
  what to improve and where the flaw is, in the
  system. Therefore, detailed criteria can help
  even more by specifying what should be improved.