[Steam-engine] engineer licensing

[Paul Pavlinovich]

Certainly do here in Australia. Up until recently, licensing was state 
based through "WorkSafe" a government body. Essentially you go to a 
private trainer, get trained, then examined by a licensed examiner then 
submit an application for the license along with all the paperwork. 
Recently this was replaced by National Standard for Licensing Persons 
Performing High Risk Work. The process is basically the same, but the 
license is national instead of state based. This applies to your boiler 
ticket and engine ticket which are handled seperately.

I've got "BI" - Boiler Intermediate which allows me to run almost 
anything short of a power station! The scary thing about this licensing 
is that you have the theory and then pass a simple single practical exam 
(doesn't even involve steaming) and off you go - you can go run a boiler 
unsupervised.

Regards
Paul

Andy glines wrote:
> Does you state require engineers to be licensed?  If
> they do please tell us about the licensing program
> there.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy Glines
> Evansville, IN
>