Competency certificate in 360 excavator

[Craig.]

CPCS is no hardship

I had one lesson @ 250

and test at 400£

for the size of machine I thought that was not bad cost

takes a bit of revision for the theroy

only lasts 5 years and i think I have to do a nvq or something too?????

 

Are you on a Red card, or Blue? I think the red only lasts 2 years, then you need to do the nvq to convert to the blue card that lasts 5 years, then you just needs the hours worked signed up in your log book to renew after the 5 years + cscs less than 2 years old if I remember rightly.

[roseyweb]

Cheers Craig, what's involved in the nvq

I think mines red, says trained operator

[Craig.]

You can or could do it one of two ways, either the assessor would come out to you on site 3 times I think to see you working, take photos of you working, and your work, speak to supervisor and so on to build up a file to prove competence, when that is done you upgrade to competent operator card, (blue). Or you can do an other test very similar to the first test you done but a bit more involved, questions asking about what work you had carried out, a questioner sent to your foreman/manger backing up what you have said you've done, and loads of photos being taken all day from checking oil, and refuelling to the finished task, again to build up a file to prove competence.