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is it worth doing has anyone done the course?
 
I'm doing it at UTN in Oct, should be ok I reckon..
 
Go for it mate.. the more quals you have the better nowadays...
 
Do it in Oct at UTN with me... fukinel.. that sounds gay :nuts:
 
Is the CISRS Supervisor course your usual run of the mill lasts for 5 years then you need to renew card??? or do you need a refresher like the Inspection course???
 
poacher turned gamekeeper said:
Is the CISRS Supervisor course your usual run of the mill lasts for 5 years then you need to renew card??? or do you need a refresher like the Inspection course???
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Think so mate, they all run 5 years don't they ? sure there all the same. touch screen every 5 years...

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cozzy said:
wheres utn and how much is yours costing?
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Its in Wakefield mate.. firms paying mine, think its about £850 for the week..
 
Go for it mate my mate did it and thought it was a good course, it gave him all the up to date info for scaffolding, it comes in handy if you need to check the latest regs
 
Course is rubbish , only enjoyed/learnt one thing which was the formula for estimating then when we had all done mock estimating the guy running the course said " you'll never do it that way cos it's all done on computer ".
 
So red you say the course was rubbish ? How did you find the risk and method statement side of the course ? As for the estimator side yes they are done on PC now however you need to know the basics of manpower over cost before you put it into the system and most quotes are done manual as many systems don't understand boarding out first lift and then the movement of boards and hop ups. I learnt a lot when I did my course and even more when I started working in the office and seeing the money side of things the course is not really for a site supervisor at the end of the day the supervisor on site is only a point of contact / foreman
 
The course is pathetic.

2 days of chatting nonsense about man-management, scaffold inspections, 30 minutes on estimating, half a day wasted on delivering TBT's and the final (half day) was a presentation from a CADs sales rep on their estimating package.

At the end of the first day - which was frittered away on a bizarre man-mangement module, one chap with 25 years experience and who owned his own company said to the instructor "What has any of this got to do with scaffolding?"

Not a lot!
 
Have been supervising for two months now and there is nothing like hands on exprience , but no way is it easy !
 
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