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SPARKSAFE ARRIVES ON THE MAINLAND

John Peckham
I saw the announcement at the Elex show in Harrogate that NAPIT had formed a partnership with Sparksafe. I assume all NAPIT registered contractors will gain automatic status for the License to Practice without needing the qualifications for direct membership?


I did hear that a well known rail contractor walked away from a contract as they did not have enough operatives that met the LtP criteria.


I am thinking that if it did gain traction a lot of contractors would be in the brown stuff as they would no longer be able to use cheap unqualified labour.


Google Sparksafe to see what it is all about. They don't seem to have many members at the moment.
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    I started college two evenings a week in September 1999, passed the C&G 2360 part 1 in August 2000, part 2 in 2001 then the 16th In Jan 2002, inspection and testing in May 2002 and the Design, erection and verification in July 2003.


    That was what I agreed I would do as evening classes over three years with the head of department at the college back in September 1999. We had a discussion about the NVQ which I would have to have funded myself along with the courses I did for as I was over the age of twenty seven at that time. The head of department said it was highly unlikely that anyone would ever expect me to have a NVQ given my age, but one day I might have to do the AM2.


    Unofficially I did the AM2 in the college workshop, but the college had lost its registration at a NVQ centre which meant I would have needed to go to another college to do it as a officially. With everything else that was going on in my life that never happened, but actually it would not have been enough to now join Sparksafe as they are stating 1999 as the cut off date for gaining the 2360 Parts 1&2 and AM2 saying I need a full NVQ.


    I don’t think I will be bothering to trying to get a NVQ to join Sparksafe twenty years after deciding to give it a miss back in 1999, if it had just been a matter of doing the AM2 I may of given it  bit more consideration, but probably not for long.


    Apart from that, claiming they are a licensing authority seems a bit rich.


     Andy
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    I started college two evenings a week in September 1999, passed the C&G 2360 part 1 in August 2000, part 2 in 2001 then the 16th In Jan 2002, inspection and testing in May 2002 and the Design, erection and verification in July 2003.


    That was what I agreed I would do as evening classes over three years with the head of department at the college back in September 1999. We had a discussion about the NVQ which I would have to have funded myself along with the courses I did for as I was over the age of twenty seven at that time. The head of department said it was highly unlikely that anyone would ever expect me to have a NVQ given my age, but one day I might have to do the AM2.


    Unofficially I did the AM2 in the college workshop, but the college had lost its registration at a NVQ centre which meant I would have needed to go to another college to do it as a officially. With everything else that was going on in my life that never happened, but actually it would not have been enough to now join Sparksafe as they are stating 1999 as the cut off date for gaining the 2360 Parts 1&2 and AM2 saying I need a full NVQ.


    I don’t think I will be bothering to trying to get a NVQ to join Sparksafe twenty years after deciding to give it a miss back in 1999, if it had just been a matter of doing the AM2 I may of given it  bit more consideration, but probably not for long.


    Apart from that, claiming they are a licensing authority seems a bit rich.


     Andy
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