site safety card

[jamesw]

advice needed please i am looking for work and have been told that a cscs card would be advantageous!(? spelling:blushing:)I have looked it up on tinternetand have the following. It costs £25 and involves a h&s test. My question is what is the offical website because all i can find are ones that want to charge a fee to train me:sneaky2: Also what trade/colour card do arborists go for? sorry for being simples

any help mucho appreciated:thumbup1:

[combined tree services]

most of the cscs is irelivent to this industry mate , and to be honest if your working on sited that require it then i would guessthat you will have to update your H&S policies and your R/A's . personally i dont feel that it is worht the grief mate

[jamesw]

its for working for someone else ie paye or self employed rather than a company would that be easier? or same opinion

[combined tree services]

same oppinion mate , if your working for them and you hace the cscs ticket and they dont then it is pointles and if for anyreason your working on a site where it is required and your the only one with it you could end up having to take full responsibility . personally i think that we are tree surgeons and not part of the construction indutry what so ever , there are far better ways of getting work as a subby , what tickets do you have so far mate ?

[Andy Collins]

We had to have cscs in place for all sites that were run by a main contractor from the construction game, it was the contractors specification, no cscs no work. This covered various sites as military, Tescos and were large contracts for a small tree company, so worth the small amount of time spent at a puter screen doing a simple test.

[combined tree services]

We had to have cscs in place for all sites that were run by a main contractor from the construction game, it was the contractors specification, no cscs no work. This covered various sites as military, Tescos and were large contracts for a small tree company, so worth the small amount of time spent at a puter screen doing a simple test.

 

so did you get much work from it ?? i looked into it but down here there is not much call for it at all

[jamesw]

cs30/31/38 39assessment 25th this month

[Andy Collins]

Well at the time we had various contracts on Military bases (McAlpine) Tesco (cant remember but construction company) and more, and it formed the bulk of work for a full-time gang for several months at a time. We were way down the food chain, but still had to have the CSCS.

[combined tree services]

cs30/31/38 39assessment 25th this month

 

i personally would go for my street works tickets which includes traffic management etc and maybe if your still looking for work then see which agency your local councils are using !!! if you were in cornwall i would see if you fancied a trial mate:biggrin:

[jamesw]

hi andy i think that is the type of contracts that this firm deal with big machinary and big sites. What type/colour cards did you have? cheers