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Guidance: Qualifications to service equipment containing ozone-depleting substances

Environment Agency

November 14
15:23 2022

You must have qualifications to:

  • check for leaks of HCFCs
  • recover HCFCs
  • maintain or service equipment that contains HCFCs

Refrigeration equipment

You must have one of the following qualifications to work on refrigeration equipment:

  • City and Guilds Certificate in Handling Refrigerants Scheme 2078
  • 2079-11 City and Guilds Level 2 Award in F Gas and ODS Regulations: Category I
  • 2079-12 City and Guilds Level 2 Award in F Gas and ODS Regulations: Category II

Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) are no longer issuing new HCFC qualifications or certification. Any CITB qualifications you have for working with HCFCs are no longer valid.

Fire protection systems and extinguishers

You must have Fire Industry Competence Certificate Course Class 1 F3 to work on fire protection systems and extinguishers.

Published 16 October 2019
Last updated 14 November 2022 +show all updates
  1. Updated the list of qualifications needed to work on equipment containing HCFCs. CITB qualifications are no longer valid. Different qualifications are needed to work on refrigeration systems and fire protection systems and extinguishers.

  2. Removed section about applying to the Irish Environmental Protection Agency for a certificate as the deadline has now passed.

  3. Added details about how to apply for an ODS certificate to work in Ireland.

  4. First published.

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