Training & Qualifications

Certification of Personnel Handling Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F-gases) and Companies employing such persons.

Training and company certification are a requirement of European and Irish law to ensure that ODS and F-gases are not emitted during installation maintenance and servicing of equipment containing those gases.

Personnel Certification

In Ireland, the minimum training qualifications, that must be held by personnel working on ODS and F-gas systems have been defined as follows

 

Refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump sector (Stationary)

City and Guilds Level 2 Award in F-gas and ODS Regulations (2079)

or

FETAC Level 5 Specific Purpose Certificate Handling F-gas Refrigerants (5S0108)
Mobile air conditioning sector FETAC Level 5 Specific Purpose Certificate Handling F-gas Mobile Air Conditioning Systems (5S0109)
Fire protection sector

Fire Industry Association Competence Certificate Course Class 1

or

FETAC Level 5 Specific Purpose Certificate Handling F-gas Fire Extinguishants (5S0110)
Pest control sector - fumigation using methyl bromide  British Pest Control Association Certificate of Proficiency for Fumigation Operators (in a relevant specialist module or relevant specialist modules)

Company Certification

The Irish company certification body is F-gas Registration Ltd. (FGR). However a valid company certificate issued by a certification body in another Member State of the European Union must be mutually recognised in Ireland. Similarly, any company certificate issued by FGR will be recognised in all other Member States.

Learn More

Check the F-gas Registration Ltd. (FGR) website, the company certification body in Ireland.

Check the FETAC website for further information on Irish standards for training and qualification in handling ozone depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases.

Contact Refrigeration Skillnet for further information on training and qualifications in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector.

Download the Information Leaflet on Training and Qualifications for Handling Refrigerants.

Check the Fire Industry Association website for further information on training and qualifications in the fire protection sector.

Check the British Pest Control Association website for further information on training and qualifications to use methyl bromide for fumigation.