Becoming gas safe

[Ihateusernames]

Hi all

basically here's my situation

i spent 5 years in the navy doing my engineering apprenticeship and now i work in building services as a mechanical engineer/plumber

i am looking at becoming gas safe for commercial and catering equipment

ive found a place my company is willing to let me go to for training

the problem is because my apprenticeship didn't cover gas and the commercial qualification needs 6 months prior experience I have been told to do my domestic gas. Then do a changeover course. All in all costing over £3000 which my company isn't to happy about. Plus the time off work for courses and hours to get a domestic licence which I will never use

my question is whether there is any other way of me getting commercial gas safe without experience?

Cheers

josh

 

[lame plumber]

NO, you need experience to be safe, bit like learning to do your RN job, you wouldnt see a WE tiff doing doing work on a gas turbine, likewise a plumber cant just hop into a gas techies role without training and experience of the role

 

[Ihateusernames]

NO, you need experience to be safe, bit like learning to do your RN job, you wouldnt see a WE tiff doing doing work on a gas turbine, likewise a plumber cant just hop into a gas techies role without training and experience of the role

sorry didn't explain it right. I understand I need experience but the way they've explained it is I have to do my domestics. Get experience with domestics then go commercial and do the same over again even though I have no interest in becoming a domestic gas engineer

josh