AIRPORT SECURITY STAFF TRAINING AND MOTIVATION IS PRIORITY FOR IMPROVEMENT – BEMOSA
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORKSHOP staged by the European Union's (EU) BEMOSA airport security research project has heard calls to improve both training and long-term motivation of passenger screening workers, lest fast staff turnover weakens security. David Trembaczowski-Ryder, senior policy manager for ACI Europe warned job boredom, long hours and poor pay lowered employee skills and standards, forcing airports to reply on temporary staff. In Helsinki, for instance, he said: "Many of these screeners are summer-job students and that's why 90% of youth in Finland ...
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