cscs card

[Ricky]

This might be a silly question but what does a lighting/theatre technician come under on a cscs card?

[Bryson]

For those who aren't so skilled with the old Google, he means the Construction Skills Certification Scheme.

 

As far as I understand it, no. We aren't construction workers.

[mikienorth]

But some of us are Electricians, and as such were registered under the old CIS card scheme. But we need to actually be electriciansto do that, and it is a different form of self employed to freelance, vouchers and tax being paid and all that, it's been four years since I did all that.

If work dries up, I'll be on a building site as a construction industry electrician.

[Duncan Wood]

This might be a silly question but what does a lighting/theatre technician come under on a cscs card?

 

 

Well you don't really come under anything. What you're doing may come under one of the other headings.

[Ricky]

Thanks all the reason I ask is because in the adverts there is an advert for lighting technicians preferably with a cscs card. And this confused me a bit as I was looking at these cscs cards and there is nothing on there remotely theatre related.

[mac.calder]

I would assume that the cscs is just one method of demonstrating competency. Theatre (as an industry) is a collection of many subsets of skills, and having a card that demonstrates externaly assured competency would be seen as a good safety net by many employers (I would assume). So for a set designer - some form of construction would be a plus, for an LX tech or sound tech, maybe an electrician, or maybe there is a more suitable occupation to be certified with.

 

Personally, I think it seems slightly over the top for theatre, unless there was a specific theatre category - as the situations in theatre are often quite different to the real world.

[Bryson]

Possibly an Install business? That would be my suspicion.