CSCS

[carlos]

slight derail but what do people do for mini digger certification in arb work ( ie mini digger and grab)??

thanks carl

[dumper]

I have been doing site clearance for over 35 years I use a fencing supervisor card and a green labourers card most sites don’t care what is on the card just so long as you have one 

 

[Clutchy]

11 minutes ago, dumper said:

I have been doing site clearance for over 35 years I use a fencing supervisor card and a green labourers card most sites don’t care what is on the card just so long as you have one 

 

 

 

True, most will let you on without any cards if they're desperate 😂

 

You just don't become that desirable next time round 

[AHPP]

I fondly remember the first time I went onto a building site with someone else’s cards. Told the site manager the wrong name. He looked at the photos on the cards and looked at me. Asked my name again. I got it wrong again. Twenty minutes later I was spiking up a 5’ DBH chestnut. Bloody pointless charade. 

[Mark Bolam]

13 hours ago, Clutchy said:

Done this what feels like 100 times 

 

Should be a blue skilled worker NOT labour only (green). In an ideal world, and on the larger sites, the supervisor should have a gold or black card. 

 

As Paul mentions the path is this: 

 

Check to see which blue card you can apply for, the easiest one is groundman which only requires cross cut and maintainence. You then have different levels of blue card such as:

• Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross-cutting ONLY
• Tree Climbing & Aerial Rescue
• Stump Grinder
• Arborist Worker Chainsaw Groundsman
• Arborist Worker Chainsaw Ground-based
• Arborist Worker Chainsaw Advanced Ground-based
• Arborist Worker Chainsaw Off Ground
• Arborist Worker Chainsaw Advanced Off Ground (rigging and pruning)

 

Once you have that, book a 1 day ROLO course (can be done online, use Jon as UKHSS) 

Book CITB either before or after, download the spec/op CITB training app, its around £7 and that's all the training you need, don't waste a day training at training school, really not needed. 

 

If your employee isn't the sharpest, get them to do ROLO first then CITB test as a lot if covered there.

You then take the level 2 NPTC certs + ROLO + CITB touch screen test and send that to BALI/LISS who will then send it off to CSCS for you to get your card. 

So, 
Book CITB here: https://wsr.pearsonvue.com/testtaker/signin/SignInPage/CITB

Book ROLO: https://www.ukhss.co.uk/training/rolo-courses/

Submit all docs to: https://www.bali.org.uk/lisscscs-2019/apply-for-a-card/?preselect=Blue (Skilled Worker)

 

 

A tonne of our work is building sites so let me know if I can help with any questions. 

 

 

 

 

That’s great info Clutchy, thank you.

[eggsarascal]

16 hours ago, AHPP said:

I fondly remember the first time I went onto a building site with someone else’s cards. Told the site manager the wrong name. He looked at the photos on the cards and looked at me. Asked my name again. I got it wrong again. Twenty minutes later I was spiking up a 5’ DBH chestnut. Bloody pointless charade. 

It’s nonsense; we went on a site in Cambridge some years back, we had a young lad with us with no card, the bloke running the site wouldn’t have him on site until we said we would all have to leave, miraculously he let the young lad on site. 

[Mark Bolam]

23 hours ago, carlos said:

slight derail but what do people do for mini digger certification in arb work ( ie mini digger and grab)??

thanks carl

Or loader, keeping vaguely on topic?

 

We all know it’s bollocks, but I just think life would be easier if myself and the lads I work with all get one.

[Mick Dempsey]

I would say here where I am (south west rural France) we’re around 20 odd years behind the UK in regards to paperwork and regulations.

They’re  just starting to bring in RAMS and stuff.

I regularly see farmers in the buckets of telehandlers cutting branches off field side trees.

Im sure I’ll be retired before these things start to gain traction here, thankfully.

[AHPP]

34 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I would say here where I am (south west rural France) we’re around 20 odd years behind the UK in regards to paperwork and regulations.

They’re  just starting to bring in RAMS and stuff.

I regularly see farmers in the buckets of telehandlers cutting branches off field side trees.

Im sure I’ll be retired before these things start to gain traction here, thankfully.

Where in the world is 100 years “behind” the UK? I’m becoming increasingly open minded about leaving. 

[Mick Dempsey]

14 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Where in the world is 100 years “behind” the UK? I’m becoming increasingly open minded about leaving. 

Bulgaria maybe?