Engineers are likely to keep up-to-date by:
- attending update courses,
- reading briefing material, memos and bulletins, and
- studying maintenance manual amendments.
Responsibility for maintaining currency lies with both the individual engineer and the maintenance organization for which he works. The engineer should keep up-to-date with changes in his profession. The organization should provide the appropriate training and allow their staff time to undergo training before working on a new aircraft type or variant. From a human factors point of view, small changes to the technology or procedures concerning existing aircraft carry potentially the greatest risk. These do not usually warrant formal training and may merely be minor changes to the maintenance manual. Although there should be mechanisms in place to record all such changes, this presumes that the engineer will consult the updates. It is the engineer’s individual responsibility to maintain his currency.