The two that are effectively always required
- Victorian A-Grade Electrician's Licence — issued by Energy Safe Victoria. Without it, the person cannot lawfully carry out electrical installation work in Victoria.
- Construction Induction Card (White Card) — required to perform construction work. It doesn't expire on the card, but it lapses if you haven't done construction work for two years, so it's worth confirming rather than assuming.
The tickets set by the work
Low voltage rescue and CPR
Required on most commercial, industrial and data-centre sites, and asked about first by safety officers. CPR competency is typically refreshed annually and LV rescue on a similar cycle. This is the ticket most often found expired on an otherwise perfect crew — check the date, not just the certificate.
Working at heights
Standard on construction, high-bay warehouse and rooftop solar work. Refresher periods are commonly set by the site or the employer rather than by a fixed statutory expiry.
Elevated work platform (EWP)
For boom lifts with a boom length of 11 metres or more, a High Risk Work Licence is required. Below that, and for scissor lifts, sites generally require a recognised EWP operator card. Warehouse high-bay work makes this non-negotiable.
Confined space
Needed for tanks, pits, plant spaces and some tunnelling and industrial work. Usually paired with gas-testing competency where the site requires it.
Hazardous areas (EEHA)
For classified zones — fuel, chemical, grain, some food processing and mining. It's a specific competency, not something an A-Grade licence covers, and it should be matched to the zone classification of the site.
Asbestos awareness
Commonly required on refurbishment and demolition work in older buildings. Cheap to hold and frequently the thing that stops a start on a strip-out.
First aid
Often a site requirement rather than a legal one, and typically refreshed every three years with the CPR component annually.
Clearances and checks
- National police check — effectively mandatory in healthcare, common on secure and government sites
- Security clearance (for example Baseline or NV1) — held by the person, sponsored through a government process, and not something a labour-hire provider can accelerate
- Immunisation records — set by individual healthcare facilities
- Drug and alcohol testing and site medicals — common on infrastructure, rail and energy projects
- Rail industry inductions — project-specific, and usually the thing that determines the earliest possible start date
The practical risk isn't a missing ticket — it's an expired one. Anything with a date on it needs to be tracked with that date, not filed once and forgotten.
How Grid Force handles it
Every licence, ticket and clearance is uploaded to the electrician's file, checked by our team, and stored with its expiry date. Matching runs against those dates — an expired ticket removes an electrician from consideration for a job that needs it, automatically, rather than relying on someone remembering. When you request a crew, you tell us the tickets the site needs and we match on them before anyone is offered the work.