to all tradies coming to oz
Mar 1st 2007, 9:45 am
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Re: to all tradies coming to oz
Most chippies work towards gaining a builders licence to enable them to work as builders. Some companies require the framing chippie to be a licenced builder.
Mar 1st 2007, 9:45 am
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Re: to all tradies coming to oz
That's what I wanna know!
Obviously, they are just far too busy out there working so don't have time to post on here and therefore they don't require their own forum.
Right? I'm right aren't I? Tell me I'm right...please
Obviously, they are just far too busy out there working so don't have time to post on here and therefore they don't require their own forum.
Right? I'm right aren't I? Tell me I'm right...please
Mar 1st 2007, 9:47 am
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which I think is a safety course which is complusory, am I right in thinking this?? Dolly
Mar 1st 2007, 9:48 am
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Me too I'm afraid (?) to say!! Arrived 11th December in Brisbane and rang a contact from this site on 14th who started me working, on $22/hour, supervised, the following week. Rang Queensland licensing office who said owing to the xmas period it wouldn't be possible to issue permit before the new year, but provided I was supervised by a QLD licensed sparky I could work. Applied to ARTC end Jan and classed as electrical mechanic three weeks later. Got pay-rise as a result to $25/hour. This in addition to van and mobile phone given to me end of Jan. Started at TAFE last Saturday. 12 Saturdays, 8am-4pm costing $1000. Peanuts. To me anyway as was expecting to pay for re-qualification.
I agree the system is ludicrous and the standards here are shocking, no pun intended, but to keep comparing everything to the UK IS CRAZY. Newsflash. This is Australia guys. We emigrated for something different, no? Well, it sure is different. And sunny. And all the girls wear skimpy clothes.
Gonna get another pay-rise when I pass the course. A big one. No-one fails!
Good luck all
Andy
I agree the system is ludicrous and the standards here are shocking, no pun intended, but to keep comparing everything to the UK IS CRAZY. Newsflash. This is Australia guys. We emigrated for something different, no? Well, it sure is different. And sunny. And all the girls wear skimpy clothes.
Gonna get another pay-rise when I pass the course. A big one. No-one fails!
Good luck all
Andy
Mar 1st 2007, 9:50 am
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Re: to all tradies coming to oz
Have you tried the QBSA site?
Most chippies work towards gaining a builders licence to enable them to work as builders. Some companies require the framing chippie to be a licenced builder.
Most chippies work towards gaining a builders licence to enable them to work as builders. Some companies require the framing chippie to be a licenced builder.
The blue card is like a health & safety thing isn't it, similar to the one they have to have to go on site here - actually I found a site where you could do that online from the UK but Dale was dubious as to whether it was the real thing, as he can't see how you can do something like that online as it'd mean anyone could get a blue card because they wouldn't see who was answering the questions
Mar 1st 2007, 9:52 am
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All I could find was that chippies didn't have to be registered in Victoria unless they want a Contractors Licence to be self employed. If they are working for an employer they need a Red Card which I think is a safety course which is complusory, am I right in thinking this??
Dolly
which I think is a safety course which is complusory, am I right in thinking this?? Dolly
All the states do differ with licencing though, we were originally looking at Perth and I don't think chippies need a licence there. Could be wrong though it seems a bit fuzzy.
Mar 1st 2007, 10:00 am
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Ooh right ok, so it would be best for him to go for the Builders Licence then? Also he needs to get a blue card doesn't he? We've seen some jobs and they ask for Blue Card and sometimes ABN - I think ABN is a business number, which I presume he will get after he's got a licence?
The blue card is like a health & safety thing isn't it, similar to the one they have to have to go on site here - actually I found a site where you could do that online from the UK but Dale was dubious as to whether it was the real thing, as he can't see how you can do something like that online as it'd mean anyone could get a blue card because they wouldn't see who was answering the questions
The blue card is like a health & safety thing isn't it, similar to the one they have to have to go on site here - actually I found a site where you could do that online from the UK but Dale was dubious as to whether it was the real thing, as he can't see how you can do something like that online as it'd mean anyone could get a blue card because they wouldn't see who was answering the questions
CSCS is much harder as it's touch screen at the driving test theory place now.
You guys are coming to the Sunny Coast aren't you?
Mar 1st 2007, 10:05 am
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Yep anyone could get a blue card! It's one of those never fail type courses, half a day sitting in a classroom or a couple of hours sitting on empty paint cans on a site followed by a quick exam that the course tutor puppy walks you through. Hell you even get to mark your own answer sheet and fill in your own card details. Costs about a hundred bucks but it keeps a tutor in full time work
CSCS is much harder as it's touch screen at the driving test theory place now.
You guys are coming to the Sunny Coast aren't you?
CSCS is much harder as it's touch screen at the driving test theory place now.
You guys are coming to the Sunny Coast aren't you?
When Dale did his CSCS it was a mouse, now it's touch screen he's quite disappointed people get it so easy these days
Yes I think we are - we were heading to Perth but have decided to go East first instead. We've both got this niggling feeling that we 'need' to go and check it out, so (visa permitting!) we're going to get a flight to Brisbane and take it from there
Mar 1st 2007, 10:09 am
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Ooh right ok, so it would be best for him to go for the Builders Licence then? Also he needs to get a blue card doesn't he? We've seen some jobs and they ask for Blue Card and sometimes ABN - I think ABN is a business number, which I presume he will get after he's got a licence?
The blue card is like a health & safety thing isn't it, similar to the one they have to have to go on site here - actually I found a site where you could do that online from the UK but Dale was dubious as to whether it was the real thing, as he can't see how you can do something like that online as it'd mean anyone could get a blue card because they wouldn't see who was answering the questions
The blue card is like a health & safety thing isn't it, similar to the one they have to have to go on site here - actually I found a site where you could do that online from the UK but Dale was dubious as to whether it was the real thing, as he can't see how you can do something like that online as it'd mean anyone could get a blue card because they wouldn't see who was answering the questions
Dolly
Mar 1st 2007, 10:11 am
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Mar 1st 2007, 10:12 am
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Mar 1st 2007, 10:14 am
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Oi, stop giving me the fear
Lol, yep free card with your kellogs
I went for a bobcat card it was a written test. Six months later I went for a teleporter/site forktruck one and it was a mouse. A yr later I did a MEWP licence and it was a really easy touch screen with multi choice answers. I left to come here a couple of weeks later so they've probably been giving them away on cornflake boxes ever since
Mar 1st 2007, 10:27 am
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The other is one for working with children. Both are the same colour blue [don't go there, this is QLD you know] Deb has both and when we were asked last year she produced her kids blue card much to the angst of the H&S inspectorate.