Training to be a NPTC/Loler assessor?

[Ian Flatters]

Im toying with the idea of getting myself qualified as an NPTC assessor?

 

So, if you are, was it worth the expense in the long run or a bit of a white elephant?

[slack ma girdle]

Still waiting to get my final assessment whilst assessing, so that i qualify. So far it has been a white elephant as i have been waiting eighteen months, and i am not qualified yet !!

[john dawson]

il be honest, iv been registered to be an assessor for 2 years now, and i still havent done my technical verification yet! i think its a decent thing to have if you can get there!

[Quickthorn]

I think it depends on your existing workload. A day's assessing is a steady income with almost no overheads. The only problem I've found is that there's more assessing to do in Winter, when I'm very busy anyway. I have to sacrifice a day's work for a day's assessing, so I don't gain much really.

 

If you're going for chainsaw or other forest machinery, you might find getting verified a bit easier, as the verifier for your region lives in Norfolk.

 

People still waiting for verification have to be a bit pro-active; find out who your local verifiers are and keep ringing them until you've got a date out of them.