Gas safe card

[nysk2008]

Can anyone give me an idea how long it takes before you can apply to gas safe after passing your elements etc. I know it depends on your college but just rough timescales?

Cheers

 

[aggis]

Contact Gas Safe asap & tell them you've passed the elements. They'll tell you what the timescale is, get the ball rolling, don't wait for them!

 

[J L Jones]

I think you have to wait till you get your certificates come through the post. In my experience done the elements mid June got the Gas Safe card paperwork etc end of July.

 

[kirkgas]

you should be on the Gas Safe Register (on a kind of holding list) about 20 days after you pass your exams, by the time the centre process the paperwork then pass it to the certification body to do their bit, they will then download your info/quals to GSR ( who will add you to the register) and send you your certs, so technically GSR will know about you a couple of days before you recieve your certs, as soon as you are on the GSR you are held on a list of qualified but unregistered, until you pay your £428 to become self employed or you get a job and the employer pays £67 to add you to their register. A few guys have said they thought as soon as they pass their exam they are qualified to work (like passing your driving test and driving home from the test) this isnt the case and neither is it the case that you can go self employed as you are "on the GSR" but you are simply on a know list of qualified people, obly when someone pays will you be added and allowed to work

 

[REDSAW]

mine took 14 days from the certificating body (rcs or someone who checks them).
i had to chase them up and gsr said they have my details check the 'rcs' which i did, they told me they had sent them to the assesment center a week ago. i then chased them up and go and pay for the certs, that evening pay gsr.
the card came a week later.
overall around 3 weeks.

 

[awhitfield]

i waited for 4 weeks after my last module exam was completed before i was on the gas safe register.

 

[Daleroader]

Ring bpec etc to confirm that they have received your test papers. my test center didnt post them out for 2 weeks. then bpec for 3 weeks. then I asked them to post direct to me but they sent them to test center, test center didnt know they had them, so it took 7 weeks for mine to arrive and I lost out on a good job which I had in my pocket because I couldnt produce certificates.

 

[gregg1908]

Hi

I contacted my college and asked them to contact the governing body to speed up my cert being sent to the gas safety register,they then posted them out and i registerd three days later.
You can go onto the register and apply it takes you all the way to the engineer page this you can keep trying to fill in.
once the certs come through it lets you go past the engineer page and complete.
you can save all your details to the engineers details page to make it easy