LBP SKILLS MAINTENANCE
CHANGES COMING SOON Paul Hobbs- Registrar Building Practitioner Licensing
LBP skills maintenance (new changes time in for some soon) The LBP scheme was established to make sure building practitioners like you have the right skills and knowledge needed to carry out or supervise restricted building work (RBW). As you know, once you have been assessed and licensed as an LBP, it is your responsibility to ensure you continue to meet the minimum standard required to keep your license. Maintaining these standards keeps you up to date with industry practices and regulatory changes.
Whether you earn your points under the current scheme or the new scheme, you will continue to have two years to complete your skills maintenance activities. So, if you relicense on November 10 2015 for example, you will have New identity/logo for LBP skills until November 2017 to complete all the requirements maintenance to continue to hold your LBP licence. The scheme will be rolled out to LBPs as their current 2-yearly skills maintenance cycle comes to a close. In simple terms, you should carry on with what you are doing until you are directed to change. Notification of your commencement in the new scheme will also be included in your annual relicensing contact letter.
A new LBP Skills Maintenance scheme is about to be introduced that changes how you keep your skills up to In launching the new scheme the Ministry has designed a date. The aim is to encourage you to get the regulatory eachlook of theand sevenfeel, which includes adopting a suite of icons new and technical information you need and, at the same time, Icons for different license classes for each of the seven license classes. The icons will be used choose elective activities that are relevant to what you do. help to identify relevant in Codewords to identify relevant material for each of the material seven classes. The wider sector will be encouraged to use Start date The ‘ALL’ icon relates to these icons when delivering skills maintenance to LBPs. guidance that is relevant The transition to the new LBP Skills Maintenance scheme Examples are provided below. seven license classes e.g. starts on 2 November 2015. From this date between 1200regulatory change that 2000 LBPs will start moving across to the new platform on a touches all license classe monthly cycle. New identity/logo for LBP skills maintenance
Icons for each of the seven different license classes help to identify relevant material The ‘ALL’ icon relates to guidance that is relevant to all seven license classes e.g. regulatory change that touches all license classes
Here’s how it will work Under the new LBP Skills Maintenance scheme you need to do a combination of compulsory and elective activities. As is illustrated below12 INHOUSE | OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2015
Here’s how it will work Under the new LBP Skills Maintenance scheme you need to do a combination of compulsory and elective activities. As is illustrated below-