Check Your Certificates
As either an Employer or Employee, you have a responsibility to have the best possible training.
Unfortunately there are a lot of fake certificates and bogus instructors out there, here are some tips on how to NOT get caught out.
Accredited Training Organisations
Since 2015 any accredited training from any of the organisations approved by the ABA. Which are ITSSAR, RTITB, NPORS and AITT. Is nationally registered and can easily be checked.
At Central Training ALL our candidates are TOPS registered, with a unique ID number that you can check on the ITSSAR website. On there it gives operator and course details of all their training since 2015. We also put the drivers photograph on their certificates and ID card.
Operator Check Links for each Organisation:
Check Your Certification
As an Employer or Employee you have a responsibility to ensure you are correctly trained on all equipment you use, especially heavy equipment like forklifts and plant machinery BEFORE giving authorisation to use it.
Do not wait for things to go wrong before checking, it is not worth the consequences.
So how can you spot a certificate that is not legitimate?
Below is an image of a certificate we had sent to us recently. An agency checked the operator number on the RTITB website and it was not right. So they found us online and emailed to ask if the number was correct.
Not only was the number incorrect, the whole certificate is false. M J Savage is not an instructor, he has used our address and logo, mocked up an RTITB certificate with false registration numbers and details. WE ar not even RTITB Accredited, we are ITSSAR. Credit goes to the agency for checking.
Below are a few things to check on any certification you have:
01
Photograph
Most modern certificates have the candidates photograph on them.
02
Course Timing
Check the course length. Basic Training MUST be a minimum of 3 days. Retests are 1 day.
03
Training Accreditation
In-House Certificates are NOT able to be transferred to another company, National training will have a candidate number that can be checked on the links above.
04
Check the Company
Contact information for the training organisation will be on the certificate. False certificates tend to miss that off. Give the company a call, or give the accrediting body a call and check they are real.