Training and assessment explained:

What ever your equipment we can assess you to BS AU 242b:2022.

It does not need to be GT!

GT provides free training for anyone who purchases repair equipment at a date and time to suit you. You name the date and we will try to accommodate you in a very small time frame. Training will take around 3 hours and you will leave with your equipment on the day. Training is exactly what you would expect it to be. Hands on with a time served industry expert ranging between 15 or 30 years showing you all you need to know about windscreen repair and how to use your equipment. You will be trained "towards" the new British Standard BS AU 242b:2022. You will be capable of undertaking a windscreen repair when you leave the course.However you will not be considered industry competent to be assessed and accredited on your training day as a BS AU 242b:2022 repair technician as you will not be competent.

Assessment centre coming very soon!

To be assessed as competent you must be a competent windscreen repair technician who is already working in the field. It may be that you are a smart repair technician with windscreen repair as part of your services, a glass polisher or a stand alone windscreen repair technician. Having completed your training above and been working in the industry for a minimum of 3 to 6 months we would consider you as competent enough to come and be assessed.

What do we mean by assessed?

Certification and claims of working to old bsi 1998 standards have gone unchecked and without formal third party accreditation for many years. Claiming to work to the new British Standard BS AU 242b:2022 can only be advertised or promoted if you have had an assessed outcome at an accreted assessment centre. Formally accredited with a 5 year certificate compliant to BS AU 242b:2022 will make you stand out amongst the rest.

You do not have to be assessed to carry out windscreen repairs as it is entirely voluntary. However from the 31st March 2023 you must remove any claims of conformity to British Standards if you are not accredited with an assessed outcome (5 year certificate). You may need to advise your trade insurance liability policy that your work is no longer compliant to British Standards. Any claims of conformity to BS AU 242b:2022 which can not be supported by accreditation and certification will be a Trading Standards issue.

1998 standards and certificates were for a world of Ford Escorts and now in the world of TESLA and its windscreen mounted technologies you need to be an expert working to current standards and not 1998 thinking!