- Applies
- when someone asks to exchange a shift
- Enforcement
- Hard: never broken
- Who sets it
- Fixed in the product
- Roster style
- published baseline (shift exchange)
verifiedCompiled from the product source on 12 September 2026
Rule catalogue · Qualifications and currency
Nobody with a suspended rating can take a swap
Breaking it hands a shift to somebody whose rating is suspended, so the position is covered by a rating that is not valid.
What qualifications and currency rules protect
This is the family that connects competency management to the roster, and it is where an integrated system earns its keep. A rating with an expiry date is not a document sitting in a folder; it is a constraint on who can be assigned where, on which day. When an endorsement lapses, the engine stops offering that person for that position rather than producing a roster somebody has to catch by eye.
Other rules in this family
- Only staff holding the required rating work the shift
- Work is spread across the ratings people hold
- The higher-priority rating is used first
- People work on their main rating, not a secondary one
- Staff still in a support period do not cover alone
- A suspended rating cannot be used to cover a shift
- Nobody is rostered before or after their employment
- Nobody is rostered before they qualify