Chainsaw refresher course, who should foot the bill?

[mikecotterill]

How on earth does someone who is self employed not "leave within a year"?

 

A lot of us here have been here for two years now, like I said in my first post, its not exactly self employed as such, but I don't really want to go into it that much.

[Rebel_Commando]

How on earth does someone who is self employed not "leave within a year"? Forgive my ignorance but is there a trade such as plumber/Electrician/Joiner who requires to retrain every 5 years? Does a truck or forklift driver need to do refresher training?

I do know that to keep my marine licence current all I have to do is prove that I have 12 months qualifying sea service in the last 5 years.

 

Just another load of old tosh to extract cash imo.

 

Cheers

mac

 

In previous employment I have had to take refresher tests for fork lifts, powered pallet trucks and first aid every 3 years and food hygiene tests every 12 months.

I believe all pro HGV drivers have to do CPC training now, 35 hours of training over 5 years?

[mikecotterill]

You do not need to do refresher training, as far as I'm aware its only recommended.

 

If you employ people its probably a good idea to have them do some form of refresher training to cover your back.

 

You may find that some clients ask about the dates on your tickets, I had a council that questioned my tickets, as I took mine in 1996, I pointed out that if they wanted a novice with limited experience I was not the man for them. They saw my point and I won the contract.

 

Well the problem is when something goes wrong, in my area of work if a mistakes made if your lucky it could cost the company huge amounts of money, at worst there could be a major incident. It's just a way for the company to cover itself. For the average Arab company it probably won't ever come into play.

[combined tree services]

Alrite guys this a bit of a long story but here goes. There's a few of us who work for an agency, and a working at a major company, we've just been told that those that have had the chainsaw tickets 5 years or longer will need to go on a 3 day refresher, for which we'll have to pay 250 plus not be paid, now some of us are paye and some are "self employed" (yes I know the issues about self employed, no need to point them out . )

 

So the question is, is there any law that can help us out? Effectively it's going to cost 550 to get a refresher for something that's for life. Any help much appreciated cheers mike

 

In short i would say that the PAYE should have any refresher training that has been requested by their employer paid for and at NO financial cost to themselves (this includes a loss of earnings). As for the self employed guys i would be asking for a negotiation with regards to how much you earn per hour/day to enable you to recover your costs .

 

All that i would bare in mind is that it is industry best practice to refresh on CS units as recommended. i think you would be on a high road to nowhere if you were to try and argue the fact that you dont need too refresh .