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How much roughly would you be talking to get a refresher course? Does the one course cover small,medium,windblown etcetera? Or are they separate?

 

Apparently doing any ticket counts as a "refresher" as you have been assessed for your basic saw skills.

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As Paul has said, the recommendation is a refresher every 5 years for regular chainsaw operators, and increasingly we are seeing that same 5 year recommendation being applied to other areas.

Up-skilling is accepted as a refreshing of existing skills and you would aim to do a refresher for the 'highest' certification you hold, or for an area where it has been identified that you need updating. If you hold a windblow ticket, the suggestion would be that you refresh that in preference to felling, as you will cover many of the elements and, like the recommendation that occasional users refresh every 3 years, because you use those skills less often the chances of forgetting things is greater.

All good refresher courses should also involve an element of updating, rather then just covering all the same things again, and should have the scope to be shaped to the learner's individual needs.

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