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Originally Posted by Fred  whats cscs csad when it's at home! |
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CSCS card is a card that shows you are competent in Health & Safety for construction sites across the UK.
There are different grades that are available.
For you as a
Tiler, then you need to be looking at a BLUE QUALIFIED WORKER card. This card will also hold your trade qualification on the back of it too, so if any health inspectors turn up on site, they will see that you are trade qualified & Health and Safety trained.
The only way you can get a BLUE QUAL card is to get your
NVQ in your trade.
BY 2010, IF YOU ARE NOT
NVQ QUALIFIED IN YOUR TRADE, OR REGISTERED ON AN
NVQ PROGRAMME, YOU CANNOT WORK IN YOUR TRADE ON SITE.
Although getting an
NVQ and
CSCS now is near the only way of getting contract work across the UK right now.
Please don't go down the route of getting a labourers
CSCS card (no
nvq required for this one), as if you get caught on site working as anything other than a labourer, you and your gaffer will get hung by the HSE big time.......
There is plenty of info on this forum about how to get your
NVQ and
CSCS - please do browse it to see where you fit in to getting one. Or ask me on here / PM me with your questions.
