The construction induction card provides proof of completion of general construction induction training.
It is required for people:
- carrying out construction work, including site managers, supervisors, surveyors, labourers and trades persons
- who access operational construction zones unaccompanied or not directly supervised by an inducted person, and
- whose employment causes them to routinely enter operational construction zones.
The card ceases to be current if you have not carried out construction work for any consecutive period of two years or more.
New work health and safety laws
New work health and safety laws commence 1 January 2012.
Transitional arrangements have been put in place in NSW to support businesses, industry and workers move to this new system.
Check the transitional arrangements to see if they apply to your work.
Note: This page is currently being updated to include the changes required under the new WHS laws.
Obtaining a construction induction card
General construction induction training is delivered through Registered Training Organisations (RTO) accredited by the NSW Vocational Education and Training Accreditation Board (VETAB) and approved by WorkCover.
To attend training you will need to contact a Registered Training Organisation and provide evidence of your identity to the value of 100 points. Commonly used evidence of identity documents include:
- an Australian birth certificate and an Australia drivers licence, or
- an Australian drivers licence, Medicare card, ATM card and a utilities bill.
The RTO will have the approved application forms for a new card and will submit them to WorkCover when you have satisfactorily completed your training. A statement of training will be issued as evidence for 60 days, until you receive your new card from WorkCover.
The course fee is set independently by the RTO.
Replacing a construction induction card
If your construction induction card has been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed, or if it contains a printing error or was never received, complete the Application to replace a WorkCover NSW OHS construction induction card, or pesticide or fumigant certificate of competency form.
Interstate cards
In addition to the WorkCover NSW construction induction card, construction workers can work in NSW using valid construction induction cards issued by all states and territories under the National Code of Practice for Induction for Construction Work as well as the following induction cards issued under previous arrangements:
- 'blue cards' issued in Queensland
- 'red cards' issued in Victoria
- Western Australian 'blue' cards.
Current OHS construction induction training cards issued between 1 September 2009 and 31 December 2011 or a former OHS induction training certificates issued between 29 March 2004 and 31 August 2009, will be recognised as a general construction induction card.
Call 13 10 50 for more information about construction induction training.