acrib menbership?

[sedgy]

can we ask the members , are we all registered?
have we all got the oppertunity to get registered?

[Brian_UK]

Can a member ask what is your interest in the subject ?

Only those in the UK have the opportunity to register. The cost being around £40 for three years.

It seems to be a charge to fund the ACRIB but I could be wrong.

It always gets me that as soon as someone has passed a qualification of some sort that there comes along a third party who wants to get paid for keeping a record of your training.

[Grizzly]

My Company have put a hold on renewal of existing memberships.
And stopped applying for new members.
Apparently it is not yet clear as to whether ACRIB Membership will be necessary in the latest round of regulations!
Anyone know any different?
Grizzly

[Argus]

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That's about right.

The ACRIB register is essentially a UK only voluntary database of those individuals who hold a current CITB or C&G 2078 safe handling Certificate. It has been in the background since the early ‘90s. You give them money and they provide you with another card containing your mug-shot in addition to the ones that you already have.

Whether the fee is too high or is a source of valuable income for ACRIB is open to debate, but the fee seems a bit steep just to have your name listed and produce yet another ID-type card

The intention originally was to centralise valid qualifications for companies (principally supermarkets) to ascertain if technicians had the safe handling Cert (when it was not mandatory to do so, as it is now) in order to use HCFCs and HFCs.

As I said, having the safe handling certificate under your belt (or in your wallet) is now mandatory and the certification of handling process is being beefed up with minimum qualifications for the F Gas regulations.

ACRIB have been pressing to have their register used as a compulsory instrument for listing ‘qualified’ technicians within the requirements of the F Gas rules and it’s no secret that ACRIB are disappointed that the UK government is not enthusiastic to do so.

(For those who want to know, ACRIB is the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Industry Board – administered by the organisation of the Institute of Refrigeration in the UK and populated by large companies and the main trade association – it likes to think of itself as the voice of the industry). http://www.acrib.org.uk/LX114H43302

On the plus side, they do carry some useful information on their web site, and no, I don’t have any connection with them


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[sedgy]

yes brian,
1st I am not registered with acrib
2nd I did,nt know this was a british websiteI

[sedgy]

[quote=sedgy;123378]yes brian,
1st I am not registered with acrib itsout of date
2nd I did,nt know this was a british website I thought it was an internasional website,
the reason I ask is beause I live in spain and the qiality of workmanship is dredful. and I cannot find any who organisation who dose the job that acrib doin the uk
yours in the interest of good workmanshipand a clean enviroment sedgy

[Brian_UK]

[quote=sedgy;123378]yes brian,
1st I am not registered with acrib itsout of date
2nd I did,nt know this was a british website I thought it was an internasional website,
the reason I ask is beause I live in spain and the qiality of workmanship is dredful. and I cannot find any who organisation who dose the job that acrib doin the uk
yours in the interest of good workmanshipand a clean enviroment sedgyIt is an international forum but you were asking about a British organisation hence answers about the UK.