ACS Gas Safe Engineer Courses - Gas Safe Training |
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CCN1 | ACS Gas Safe - Core Gas Safety Certificate (mandatory) |
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CPA1 | ACS Gas Safe - Flue Gas Analysis |
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CEN1 | ACS Gas Safe - Central Heating Boilers |
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CKR1 | ACS Gas Safe - Cookers and Hobs |
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HTR1 | ACS Gas Safe - Gas Fires |
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WAT1 | ACS Gas Safe - Water Heaters |
When you have passed the ACS accreditation examinations you will be eligible to apply for Gas Safe for registration. When you are registered you will be able to display the Gas Safe logo on your stationery and vehicles.
You do not need Gas Safe registration to make a very good living as a professional plumber however, your accreditation will open up the opportunity for additional work such as the full installation of wet central heating systems including boilers and boiler maintenance and the safety certification and maintenance of all gas appliances as is required by law for landlords.
For students who complete our PPC2 Plumbing for Professionals course we offer the ACS Gas Safe course at below cost. The offer price is dependant upon enrolment within 24 months of enrolment on the PPC2 course.
Our price for this ACS Accreditation / ACS Gas Safe Engineer Training course is just £1,500 including VAT - Click here for some very good advice before you continue
(Important Note: We offer this ACS Gas Safe Registration course at reduced fees to plumbers who have completed either our PPC2 or PPC3 Plumbing for Professionals course. If you want to become Gas Safe registered but do not want to complete one of our plumbing courses you can simply do one of our other Domestic Gas Engineer courses )
To enrol on our Gas Safe Engineer Training Course simply follow these steps:
1 Complete either of our PPC2 or PPC3 Plumbing for Professionals courses
2 Read and understand the important information on this page
3 Find a position with a Gas Safe Registered Gas Engineer or company
4 Pay your Gas Safe course fee & meet one of our tutors who will explain how you complete your Portfolio
5 Complete your workplace experience (70 days with NVQ2 otherwise 140 days) and Portfolio of Evidence
6 Present your Portfolio of Evidence to one of our Assessment Centres
7 Commence your course and gain your Gas Safe ACS CCN-1 Core Gas Safety Certificate
8 Obtain your Gas Safe registration
9 Add the other Gas Safe ACS accreditations that are included in our ACS / Gas Safe course
How do I become an ACS Gas Safe Gas Installer/ACS Gas Safe Engineer?
The ACS Accreditation scheme is often confusing for new entrants. This information should help you understand exactly what you need to do.
To get onto the Gas Safe register, applicants need to be in possession of Certificates of Competence. This is called the Accredited Certification Scheme or ACS. To get these Certificates of Competence, applicants must be able to demonstrate gas safety competence by successfully completing nationally agreed assessments carried out at an Approved Assessment Centre.
However, it’s not as simple as just undertaking a Gas Safe training course and then sitting an ACS assessment.
Legal requirements dictate you will need to spend some time working with an ACS Gas Safe Registered Gas Installer on gas related work to gain workplace experience in preparation for your ACS Gas Safe examinations. Whatever route you take you must have this workplace experience before you can take your ACS Gas Safe examinations.
Without Plumbing industry qualifications and or prior workplace experience this is going to be very difficult for you to achieve because very few engineers or companies will want to take you on. That is why we only accept Plumbers onto our ACS Gas Safe course who have completed either our PPC2 Plumbing course or PPC3 Plumbing course. The wide range of qualifications you gain from our courses will enable you more easily achieve your goal because you will be far more 'employable'.
There is little point in teaching you how to repair and service a gas boiler if you don’t know whether the problem is really in the central heating pump!
Unless you are fortunate enough to know someone who is Gas Safe registered and who is prepared to let you work with him, you can see that your most difficult challenge to being registered is not passing the ACS examinations but simply finding someone to work with while you gain gas related workplace experience.
Therefore we recommend that your first priority on route to Gas Safe registration should be to gain good plumbing qualifications to make yourself more employable with a Gas Safe registered individual or company.
If you approach an employer with the range of respected plumbing industry qualifications you can gain on our PPC2 Plumbing Course or PPC3 Plumbing for Professionals course you will stand an excellent chance of being taken on.
There is still a severe shortage of skilled Plumbers in the UK and you should be able to make a comfortable living while working as a Plumber alongside Registered Gas Installers/Engineers.
How do I enter the ACS Accreditation programme?
Depending upon experience and qualifications, entrants will be classified as either category one, category two or category three. Our courses focus on new entrant career changers known as category three entrants and therefore this is the category we will outline below.
A category three entrant is someone new to the gas industry and is therefore classed as entering the industry for the first time, or changing career direction. Before being able to apply for an ACS assessment, a category three entrant must either:
1. Seek training and experience that will result in the attainment of an NVQ in Gas Services Installation and Maintenance at Level 2 or 3, plus related on the job gas training and experience so they can apply as a category two entrant. Or…
2. Obtain employment with an ACS registered business/installer who is willing to provide you with an auditable record of gas training and support (to enable you to prepare your Portfolio of Evidence).
In the latter case, the duration and content of the workplace ACS Gas Safe training is dependent upon the scope of gas work being undertaken. However, a category three entrant can usually apply for ACS assessment having obtained 140 days relevant gas related experience. This includes installing/exchanging a range of different appliance types, installation of gas pipe work, testing and purging of same, servicing, repairing and fault diagnosis of central heating boilers, calculating ventilation requirements, identification of unsafe situations etc.
Please note that 140 days reduces to 70 days if you hold NVQ 2 in Plumbing (C&G 6089-02) and are therefore eligible as a category two entrant.
All experience outlined above must be site based experience working under the direct supervision of and endorsed by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
Evidence of this completed experience in the form of a 'Portfolio of Evidence' accompanied by a confirmation letter from the Gas Safe Registered Installer or company who supervised your work must be presented to the assessment centre before you can undertake ACS assessments.
How we help you
When you have found an ACS Gas Safe registered engineer or company to work with and before you start your field based work placement you must make an appointment to visit one of our skilled gas tutors at one of our Centres. The tutor will present you with your Portfolio of Evidence log-book and explain to you exactly what you need to do to properly prepare your log and other documents for presentation to the assessment centre when you are ready.
Prior to this appointment you will need to pay the full fees for your ACS / Gas Safe training course. You will not need to make any payment for this course option up to this point.
I’ve completed my workplace experience – what’s next?
When you have completed your field experience and you have presented your evidence at our assessment Centre you may now begin the process of gaining ACS accreditation in the range of accreditations covered within our course. You will need to spend a total of two five day weeks plus a further one and a half days in Centre although the full weeks and the additional days are not necessarily back to back.
You will commence with the Core Gas Safety certificate CCN1 for domestic natural gas. On achievement of the CCN1 certificate, you can apply to be accepted onto the Gas Safe register. As a final step to registration you will be interviewed by a Gas Safe assessor. This is a verbal process only and does not require a physical demonstration of work that you have completed.
The Core Gas Safety certificate (CCN1) will only enable you to install, commission, disconnect and repair gas pipe-work in natural gas in the domestic sector. Therefore you will then go on to acquire the other Certificates of Competence included in our course enabling you to work on gas cookers, gas fires, gas heaters, and gas central heating boilers.
Finally, each of these certificates will need to be renewed every five years in order to prove that you have kept up to date with ever-changing standards and regulations and to keep your knowledge fresh.
You will also need to pay an initial Gas Safe registration fee and annual fees to maintain you accreditation. These are transactions not included in our fees.
Important Note
We offer this ACS Gas Safe Registration course at a reduced price to plumbers who have completed our PPC2 or PPC3 Plumbing for Professionals course. If you want to become Gas Safe registered but do not want to complete one of our plumbing courses you can simply do one of our other Domestic Gas Engineer courses
From April 1st 2009 CORGI registration has changed to the Gas Safe Register click here for more information.
