If you haven’t yet renewed your forklift licence under the new “high risk work” Workcover NSW system, you need to get on to it now
July 24, 2012
If you haven’t yet renewed your forklift licence under the new “high risk work” Workcover NSW system, you need to get on to it now.
“If you received your licence before 1996, if it doesn’t have an expiry date, or if it is expired, it will be cancelled after the 31 December 2012 cut-off,” warns BalanceTraining Principal Sean Casey.
“An easy way to tell if your licence is affected is to check whether it includes a photo. Any licences without photographic identification will also be void after the cut-off
date.”
Second, the expiry date of
the licence should be checked.
“If
a licence
does not have a date or has expired, it will be void unless the holder has refreshed
or renewed in time,” Casey says.
Failure to convert and renew WorkCover NSW licences issued pre-1996, 1996-2004 or expired licences to a new high risk work licence before 31 December 2012 will result in cancellation, meaning starting from scratch.
“If your licence is cancelled you will be required to undergo training by a registered training organisation and assessment by an accredited assessor before you can apply for a new high risk work licence,” Casey says.
“If you are one of the thousands of NSW workers who hold a high risk work licence, take a good look at it, because the changes are coming into effect.”
To meet national standards, a number of older high risk work licences will require conversion and renewal before 31 December 2012.
This includes licences issued before 1996, licences issued between 1996 and 2004 without an expiry date, and licences issued with an expiry date but not renewed within 12 months of expiring.
For more details on forklift licensing call Balance training
on 0430 317 594 or Lencrow Materials Handling on 1300 536 276