A radio node (52) in a wireless communication system (10) employs multiple different candidate formats (22) that define different possible positions of decoding checks (24) within a transport block of a specific size. The radio node (52) determines, from these different candidate formats (22), a format that defines a position of decoding checks (24) within a transport block (16) to be encoded or decoded. The radio node (52) then encodes or decodes at least a portion of the transport block (16) based on the determined format.