CSQ Funded Training courses Brisbane, Gold Coast and onsite!

FUNDED Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ)

Higher Qualifications, Short Courses – Building and Civil

These funded programs are again available due to funding allocated to OHSA by Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ). 

These Short Courses Programs aim to provide up-skilling and cross-skilling of workers within the Building and Construction Industry in Queensland (see below for the definition of Building and Construction industry – you might be surprised to realise just how broad this definition is). The Higher Qualifications program includes Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety and Diploma of Work Health and Safety training and is designed to help you gain new skills and knowledge. It provides you with access to training in a range of high-level vocational qualifications and is the next step on your path to success.

Applications must be received and approved prior to course registration. 

See below for some of the Funded courses being offered by OHSA:

* Certificate IV Work Health and Safety requires no up-front payment, however if you do not complete the full program within six (6) months of receiving your online logins or the attendance to the face to face course you will be required to pay the full advertised course price of $1,195 for Face to Face or $895.00 for online courses within 14 days of date of invoice.

**Up-front payment of $1,950 (Face to face) or $1500 (Online Self-Paced Study) is required for the Diploma in Work Health and Safety and if the students complete the full program within 12 months of receiving the online logins or attendance to the face to face course they will be refunded their up-front payment. This is because we only have limited number of funded places and we only receive payment upon completion of the study program. Please note, students will only be refunded on full units – Credit transfer/ RPL units are not funded and will not be refunded.  

1. To be eligible for this funding you NEED TO BE: 

• An Eligible Worker; and
• an Unemployed Eligible Worker;

 AND MUST BE:

• an Australian or New Zealand citizen; or
• a permanent resident of Australia; or
• a refugee and humanitarian visa;

 AND MUST:

• permanently reside in Queensland; or
• be permanently employed in Queensland;

An Eligible Worker has the same meaning as the Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Services Leave) Act 1991 (Qld) as amended from time to time.

An Unemployed Eligible Worker is a person who has been unemployed for a period of not greater than 4 years that would otherwise meet the requirements of an eligible worker.

2. You MUST NOT BE:

• an Employee of any Authority (excluding employees of an Indigenous Council that is a Principal Contractor);
• currently enrolled and participating in a Queensland secondary school program (excluding a school based Apprentice or Trainee);
• a contracted trainer or assessor or existing worker of an RTO;
• previously funded under the Short Courses Program for eight (8) combined Short Courses – General Construction and Civil Construction Programs in the same Contract Term or funded under the Higher Level Skills – General Construction for one (1) Higher Level Skill in the same Contract Term;
• funded by an Authority or such other source for delivery of the same Training being undertaken as part of this Program;
• those Participants seeking a Verification of Competency (or Determination of Competency) services under this Agreement; or
• other individuals that do not meet Participant Eligibility as prescribed above in Item (1).
• administrative, office-based worker

If you believe you meet these criteria and would like to be considered for funded enrollment applications MUST be received and approved prior to Registration and Attendance of the course, please download and complete the Application forms for CSQ Short Courses Higher Level Skills Program:

Application for CSQ Short Courses Program 2122.v1-Sept-2021.doc

Application for CSQ Higher Qualification Programs 2122-v1.0-Sept-2021.doc

Take note that additional documentation is to be submitted with your application form, which includes:

1. Course Registration Form to be completed by Applicant.

Download one (1) of the following OHSA Training Course Registration Forms (PDF or Word Versions) and complete and send back to us at E: csqfunding@ohsa.com.au or F: 1300 647 200 or Mail to OHSA PO Box 336 ELANORA QLD 4220

OHSA Training Registration Request 2021.2022.pdf

2. Proof of employment

Applicants MUST submit to us this Employer Letter on company letterhead

CSQ Funding Proforma Employer Letter 2021 2022.doc

3. Additional Documentation

ID Requirements for CSQ Funding 21-22.docx

Applicants MUST submit the following:

(i)   One (1) of the following:

• Full Birth Certificate or Birth Certificate Extract;
• Passport;
• Medicare card (green only); or
• Visa.

(ii)    One (1) of the following:

• A. Queensland Driver Licence;
• B. Telephone account;
• C. Bank statement;
• D. Statement from a real estate agent; or
• E. Any other formal documentation stating the Participant’s full name and current residential address; and

(iii) Evidence to verify Participants meet the Existing and Eligible Worker criteria for employment in the Building and Construction Industry. Evidence provided may include but is not limited to the following:

• A. the name of the Employer;
• B. job title of Employee;
• C. length of service with the Employer; and
• D. details of what duties are being undertaken in the Building and Construction Industry.

(iv) Evidence that demonstrates unemployment for a period less than 6 months.

Funded enrollments cannot be assessed until the above documentation is provided with your completed application.

Please forward your completed and signed application forms and supporting documentation scanned into a single file (PDF preferred) to  csqfunding@ohsa.com.au or fax to 1300 852 970.

Applications must be received and approved prior to course registration. Any shortfall payments will be discussed and arranged through our office.

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DEFINITION

Building and Construction Industry has the same meaning as the Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Services Leave) Act 1991 (Qld) as amended from time to time, currently defined as:

(1)   The building and construction industry is the industry of constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing, renovating, altering, demolishing, relocating, maintaining or repairing any of the following – 
(a)       buildings; 
(b)       spa pools and swimming pools; 
(c)       roads, railways, airfields or other works for the passage of anything; 
(d)       breakwaters, docks, jetties, piers or wharves; 
(e)       works for solid waste disposal; 
(f)        works for subdividing or developing land; 
(g)       works for the improvement or alteration of a harbour, river or watercourse for navigation purposes; 
(h)       works for the storage or supply of water or for flood mitigation; 
(i)        works for the irrigation of land; 
(j)        works for the conveyance, treatment or disposal of sewage or of the effluent from any premises; 
(k)       works for extracting, refining, processing or treating materials or for producing or extracting products and by-products from materials; 
(l)        works for conveying products, by-products or materials; 
(m)      works for the drainage of land; 
(n)       works for the storage of liquids, other than water, or gases; 
(o)       works for the generation, supply or transmission of electric power; 
(p)       works for telecommunication or for the transmission of radio or television; 
(q)       bridges, viaducts, aqueducts or tunnels; 
(r)        chimney stacks, cooling towers, drilling rigs, gas holders or silos; 
(s)       pipe lines; 
(t)        navigational lights, beacons or markers; 
(u)       pile driving works; 
(v)       sporting or recreational facilities; 
(w)      earthworks, other than for farming; 
(x)       fences, other than fences on farms; 
(y)       structures, fixtures or other works not included in paragraphs (a) to (x), but not including earthworks for farming or fences on farms.

(2)      The building and construction industry also includes land clearing and site preparation, other than for farming. 
(3)      The building and construction industry also includes the industry of, whether on or off site – 
(a)      constructing a thing, other than ordinary stock for sale, in accordance with working drawings; or 
(b)      deconstructing, reconstructing, renovating, altering, demolishing, relocating, maintaining or repairing a thing, other than ordinary stock for sale, constructed in accordance with working drawings. 
(4)       The building and construction industry does not include the industry of performing maintenance or repairs of a minor nature to anything mentioned in subsection (1) or (3) for a person not substantially engaged in activity mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3)