Safe Pass Ticket for construction workers
| Safe Pass is a Health and Safety Awareness Training Programme is a one-day programme run by FAS. FAS is Ireland's training and employment authority) Safe Pass aims to ensure that all construction site and local authority workers in Ireland have a basic knowledge of health and safety. This is to enable them to work on construction sites without being a risk to themselves or others who might be affected by their actions. Employers are required by law to ensure that employees on construction sites in Ireland carry Safe Pass cards. All Safe Pass participants get a Safe Pass registration card that will indicate that the holders have attended a formal course in health and safety awareness. Safe Pass Registration Cards You will be issued with a Safe Pass Registration Card once you successfully complete the one-day Safe Pass training programme. This card lasts for 4 years from the date of the training course Safe Pass registration card is about the size of a credit card. It shows the Fas logo, a hologram, the registration and expiry date and your photo on the front. On the back of the card is written the text ' Health and Safety Training '. You must sign your name on the back of your card. . The training modules in the Safe Pass Programme are: reasons for promoting safety; health and safety at work legislation; accident reporting and emergency procedure; accident prevention; health and hygiene; manual handling; working at heights; working with electricity, underground and overhead services; use of hand held equipment and tools; personal protective equipment; safe use of Vehicles; noise and vibrations; excavations and confined spaces. Every contractor (or other person working on his or her behalf) is required by law to ensure that everyone under his or her direct control on a construction site has received Safe Pass training and has been issued with a current Registration Card as specified above. It costs between 80-100 euro to attend a Safe Pass course. Normally, it is the employer who pays the course fee. A Safe Pass Registration Card costs 19 euro. If you later leave the workplace, you can still keep your Registration Card, provided it is in date. Your employer cannot require you to reimburse them for the cost of the course if you subsequently leave your job. (The only exception to this is where you have signed something in your contract of employment stating you will reimburse any training fees incurred before you have given a certain period of service). If you are currently unemployed, have got a job on a construction site but are required to have a Safe Pass Card before you start work, your FAS local office may be able to provide assistance with the fee. This is only where you are unable to pay the 19 euro fee yourself. You may be required to show evidence that you have actually secured the job before you are given any assistance with the fee. |