can anyone off the street take a gas inspector course with no previous training?

[darking]

Hi

I believe that it is possible for anyone to take a gas inspector course with no previous training? is this so? it seems that they can and just do a basic course then can do a basic test. just what would this be?

 

[mitchellplumber]

Id be very surprised if this is the case. Will be interesting to see whats written here.

 

[anz]

What Gas Inspector course is this?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

it would have to be a very comprehensive "basic" course packing in years of experience, to enable someone to become a gas inspector if such a course existed which i very much doubt.

 

[Gray0689]

Don't know but I can't see it maybe after about 15 years experience maybe

 

[gasmarc]

well I have been doing it for around 20 years and there is stuff that is still as clear as mud

 

[yo1]

'Basic' yh an inspector will just need to know the basics??

 

[darking]

apparently it is a bpec short course you dont need to be a plumber or anything do the course and youre in. anyone know details?

 

[gasmarc]

i would not hold my breath on getting a job with them

 

[Blumper]

..well, Its cost me a serious packet so far to embark on a training and work experience odyssey just to become a lowly Gas Safe registered minion.....if there is such a thing, which I would serioualy doubt, expect to re-mortgage and find out two thirds into it that it ain't worth fudge....I'd say you've more chance of doing an open university astronaut course.

Trainers/Assessors/Tutors...that's the real money and job security these days...

 

[kirkgas]

apparently it is a bpec short course you dont need to be a plumber or anything do the course and youre in. anyone know details?

i dont know anything about it but i work for a bpec certified centre and will look into it, it cant be hard as most on here give me pelters for doing a similar job and not doing a real job anymore, so if i can do it it cant be hard

 

[gasmarc]

difficult is the word:17:

 

[darking]

well I have found it! It is a basic course in testing for soundness, covering a new installation, an alteration or addition to existing gas work, an interruption of the gas supply and when a gas leak is suspected. bpec course, £1000, 5 days

All this with no actual certification?

 

[Gray0689]

Lol what a rip off if you do this course your a mug

 

[Deleted member 25704]

Hi

I believe that it is possible for anyone to take a gas inspector course with no previous training? is this so? it seems that they can and just do a basic course then can do a basic test. just what would this be?

I would think its possible to do any sort of qualification that has 'competence' attached to it, without any prior experience or without any sort of work experience - its happened with regard to gas installers and plumbers!

If there is a competency test, then by its very nature it is testing competence - so it does not need prior experience.

Competency courses were brought in under the Thatcher government to do away with time-serving.

So no prior experience necessary. If it is necessary, then it contradicts the philosophy of the qualification and the government policies.

The vocational training sector is about welfare to work - so they are not going to hold this up with such things as 'getting a job'. Its the training that counts these days!

 

[stevetheplumber]

i had a corgi inspection once guy looked about 22 and was only doing that job while he was waiting to join the police (or was it the gestapo) so what experience he had im not sure

 

[gasmarc]

they are not allowed to do gas work according to my inspector

 

[Pssst]

I personally would not succumb to an "inspection" by someone who more than likely knows much less than i have forgotten !

I'd just tell him to FOAD.

 

[darking]

You mean they can inspect the work, even if not competent to actually DO it?

 

[gasmarc]

Thats sounds about right , We had a clown from british heritage telling us we could not remove a polystyrene ceiling rose in a grade 2 listed property

 

[darking]

Wow grade 2 polystyrene? Shouldn't that be in a natural history museum?