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Hi can anyone tell me if an American OSHA chainsaw safety & maintenance qualification would transfer over to the UKs ntpc qualifications? 

American with many years experience and foreman /trainer who migrated over from the states looking for work shocked at the expense and amount of certificates needed. 

Any information you can give is very appreciated 

 

Thank you. 

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I believe with NPTC to get the ticket you can just do the assessment rather than having to do a mandatory number of days training, so that so that could cut the cost a lot.

I guess you would need a bit of an introduction as to the UK ways of working and HSE topics converted from OSHA so ideally you'd find a friendly training centre prepared to do a few days conversion course.

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The general view from HSE is that it is the employers responsibility to ensure an operative is competent, and capable, to perform whatever tasks / jobs are assigned. Training and qualifications can clearly help with this and PUWER Regs also support this.

With non-UK workers you need to ensure competence in the first place, and document / record this, and within 12 months align them to the UK system, i.e. NPTC / Lantra.

Your insurance company may have an opinion too, which may not align with the above unfortunately.

 

Regards,

Paul 

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