outward bound
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“‘HSE Inspectors sometimes come across scaffolders on site who are not up to date on current accepted practices with respect to safe erection and dismantling of scaffolding. This is an issue that is easily resolved through CPD and HSE welcomes the introduction of this into the CISRS scheme.
this was posted from or on behalf of CISRS - this should be enforced onto the companies and not the Scaffolders - the funding for the course is a big problem since the wages of the Scaffolders do not go up as much as they should. I would openly accept this if the CISRS was classed as a professionally recognized institution such as IOSH where to the IOSH membership you need to complete so many hours of CPD each year.... the problem is that scaffolders only need the card to work on site which is a skilled based profession and not classed as a academic based skill "like" engineering. my point is they either make it harder or raise the bar for scaffolders or they make it compulsory on enforce all scaffolding companies to become NASC certified and enforce the CPD from the employers - some employers are still making employees pay for their training through an agreed contract which is basically forced on them if they want a job - will this be another complication within the employment of scaffolders ? I think there needs to be a full plan in place before things of this nature comes into affect - CPD is a good thing but there seems to be no strategy as to how this will employed into the industry.
words for thoughts .....
OW
this was posted from or on behalf of CISRS - this should be enforced onto the companies and not the Scaffolders - the funding for the course is a big problem since the wages of the Scaffolders do not go up as much as they should. I would openly accept this if the CISRS was classed as a professionally recognized institution such as IOSH where to the IOSH membership you need to complete so many hours of CPD each year.... the problem is that scaffolders only need the card to work on site which is a skilled based profession and not classed as a academic based skill "like" engineering. my point is they either make it harder or raise the bar for scaffolders or they make it compulsory on enforce all scaffolding companies to become NASC certified and enforce the CPD from the employers - some employers are still making employees pay for their training through an agreed contract which is basically forced on them if they want a job - will this be another complication within the employment of scaffolders ? I think there needs to be a full plan in place before things of this nature comes into affect - CPD is a good thing but there seems to be no strategy as to how this will employed into the industry.
words for thoughts .....
OW