Does ISO have any “best management practices or standards” that relate staffing to work load?
ISO Response: BCEGS has established benchmarks to measure staffing. These benchmarks relate to the thoroughness of inspections. We have revised our data collection to assist the building official in the management of their department. Currently, our report details how a department activity compares to the BCEGS schedule. In January of 2004, we plan to begin distribution of a revised classifications detail report. The revised report will take the next step by comparing a community’s responses to the BCEGS questionnaire to other communities in the state or nation that are of similar size, population, or construction activity. This comparison should be beneficial to the building official when preparing budgets and projecting future staffing requirements. FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: How does ISO count inspections? Say on a big casino? ISO Response: BCEGS counts every inspection (no matter how small) individually and then bases their calculations upon the total number of inspections performed by al
