02.09.2016

New scaffold training centre in S.Korea

The UK based Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS) has opened a second Overseas Scaffolding Training Scheme (OSTS) centre in South Korea.

The new centre in Ulsan, in the south of the country, is a partnership with approved training providers, Safety & Access and Applus Velosi, which operated in the oil & gas sector providing vendor and third party inspection, certification, testing, engineering and manpower services.

The Ulsan centre offers training to OSTS Scaffolder Levels 1-3, scaffold inspection and scaffold supervisor courses. The accreditation audit was carried out this month by CISRS Scheme Manager, Dave Mosley, who was already in South Korea conducting the annual accreditation visit to the existing centre in Geoje which has trained over 2,500 scaffolders, supervisors and inspectors since it was set up in 2013, in collaboration with Samsung Heavy Industries.
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Safety & Access now runs two CISRS training centres in South Korea

Safety & Access Joint managing director Rick Statham said: “The new centre represents a very important location for us, based in Ulsan it provides a strategic base to support to the major shipbuilding and offshore industries which operate locally. We have been trading in South Korea for approaching four years and we can see the requirement for quality training growing as interest in and respect for the CISRS Overseas scheme grows.”

The OSTS scheme started in 2012 with centres now operating in the UAE, Qatar, Philippines, South Korea, Nepal and Nigeria, which have so far trained over 4,500 scaffolders.