Skills maintenance courses

When you renew your licence you’ll need to prove that you’ve maintained current skills and knowledge in three areas:

• electrical safety legislation
• risk management
• testing.

Only skills maintenance done during the previous two years will be recognised as evidence of continued competence in the relevant trade area.

You can do skills maintenance by:

• studying a course provided by a registered training organisation(s) 
• completing an online self-paced skills maintenance assessment which is available for all licences.

You must keep your rescue and resuscitation skills current. You may need them to save a life. You need to prove you are competent in resuscitating a person who has stopped breathing or is unconscious because of electric shock.

Electrical line workers must also be trained and competent in carrying out pole-top or transmission tower rescue and resuscitation.