Safe
Pass is a Health and Safety Awareness Training Programme taken in
one day and run by FAS. (FAS is Ireland's training and employment authority.)
Safe Pass trys 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.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.
All Safe Pass participants get a Safe Pass registration card that
will indicate that the holders have attended the course. This card lasts
for 4 years from the date of the training course - it 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.
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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 23 euro.
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 23 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.
If
you are an EU citizen you are entitled to live and work in Ireland without
any work permit. Citizens from countries outside the EU will need a permit
to work in Ireland
More here on Work Permits for Ireland.
