Refresher course

[eggsarascal]

My Confinded Space ticket is about to expire so today I've looked at booking the usual one day refresher course that three years ago cost £220 inc VAT. Unfortunately  this isn't the case now, its now a two day course at just short of £500 inc VAT. So for the 20-odd years I've been in the industry it's been a one dayer and I'm still alive, now it's two days and not far off £300 more. Robbing bar stewards. Who makes this crap up?

 

[Steve Bullman]

Covid probably hasn't helped. I expect they had to limit class numbers as well as take additional covid measures. We all have to pay for that

 

Bet the prices won't drop after this is over though

[Tommy_B]

But its a different course if its an extra day then isnt it? Or am I missing something

 

Can you upskill like City and Guilds allows?

[eggsarascal]

11 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Covid probably hasn't helped. I expect they had to limit class numbers as well as take additional covid measures. We all have to pay for that

 

Bet the prices won't drop after this is over though

Yes I agree with this, my point is why two days. It's always been a 3rd of the day H+S, a 3rd crawling about i chambers replicating a total failure of lighting and loss of comms with the rescue team and a third of the day doing the written test. What is day two going to cover?

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, Tommy_B said:

But its a different course if its an extra day then isnt it? Or am I missing something

 

Can you upskill like City and Guilds allows?

I don't know what's different yet, I've sent an email to ask the question.

 

This is City and Guilds now, used to be CITB. I'll ask about upskilling.

[Tommy_B]

WIth the Chainsaw courses, if you do the next course up, it automatically refreshes the one below it. 

 

(eg, doing the Felling up to 380mm refreshes the Crosscutting and maintenance,

doing the Felling over 380mm refreshes the Felling up to 380mm and so on and so on)

[Mark Bolam]

That won’t help Eggs Tommy.

 

There probably isn’t a ‘Working in even more confined spaces’ ticket.

[Dan Maynard]

He can go deeper though, say in a coal mine. Not in Suffolk though.