CISRS announce the running of CPD pilot courses at three of its accredited training providers.
CISRS will be running a series of pilot courses next month for its new controversial Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course, which is set to go live on 1st of July 2017.
National Construction College (NCC) Midlands will run the first of the pilot courses at its centre in Birmingham on 15th and 16th February. CISRS will be looking for scaffolders whose card is due to expire in 2017 to attend the (free of charge) pilot courses.
Further courses will take place at NCC Midlands on 15th/16th March and 24th/25th April. CISRS accredited providers Safety and Access and Simian Skill are also looking to set dates for further pilot courses to be delivered at their centres in Nottingham and Warrington respectively.
Each of the CISRS accredited providers looking to offer CPD training will also be requested to have one of their instructors attend a pilot course, so they can bring themselves up to speed with the content and delivery of the new two-day course. The course will include a general scaffolding update – covering the relevant technical and safety guidance notes, such as SG4, SG6 & TG20 – as well as a scaffold inspection and an aluminium tower module, which if completed successfully can then be endorsed on the rear of the new card.
A health and safety test will also be included, which if the delegates pass will negate the need to complete the CITB Health and Safety and Environment test. To assist in this new training module, a bank of health and safety questions will be issued to CISRS CPD delegates prior to attending the course.
Dave Mosley, CISRS Scheme Manager, said:
Around 4,000 scaffolders will need to renew either their Scaffolder or Advanced Scaffolder card in 2017 and more than half of these hold cards which will expire prior to 1st July – and as such will renew under the current scheme requirement of completing the CITB Health and Safety and Environment Test or a recognised exemption, not the new CPD.
Card renewal reminders are issued to cardholders three to six months prior to the card expiry date and CISRS envisages that a number of scaffolders may renew their card early in order to beat the 1st of July CPD course deadline.
The big question is how much will it cost
So the trial course is free but who pays for the two days money your gonna lose. Does anyone know exactly how much this course will cost when it come out in July? Really is just a money spinner.
What a bag of shite just another money spinner make the company pay it
Lowest paid, Think your at wrong firm pal. U0001f602. But yeah this is another load of crap tbh.
Go on this trial and get it done for nothing
Let’s rape the lowest paid trade for more money