Short Course

EWRB Competency Refresher

This is an EWRB course for New Zealand Registered Electrical Workers.

When

26 March 25
3:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Where

95 Forth Street
North Dunedin, Otago 9016,
New Zealand

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About the course

This is an EWRB course for New Zealand Registered Electrical Workers.

All registered electrical workers must hold a practising licence to carry out prescribed electrical work. You need to renew your licence every two years. Before you can do this, you need to complete the competency programme (if your last programme was over two years ago).

Otago Polytechnic is endorsed by the EWRB to run this course.

Once you’ve completed and passed this competency course, we’ll update your details in the EWRB portal. When you apply to renew your practising licence, EWRB will already have confirmation that you have met your competency obligations and are eligible to renew.

2025 course dates

Wednesday 26 March 2025
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Wednesday 30 July 2025
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Wednesday 26 November 2025

To apply

Please email alliedtrades@op.ac.nz to apply for this course.

Course fee

$180 with First Aid
$120 without First Aid

Please note: Student loans are not available for short courses and night classes.

Entry requirements

You must complete the EWRB pre-course work prior to the class starting and provide evidence that you’ve done this. Visit ewrb.govt.nz/for-registered-electrical-workers/your-licence/competence-programme-for-electrical-workers/.
You’ll also need to provide your electrical registration class at the time of enrolment.

Please note: There’s a maximum of 12 places per course.

Course content

This is the Electrical Workers Registration Board refresher training (ET901001 EWRB Competence).

During this course, you will:

get a basic first aid and CPR refresher
be given an update on any relevant current electrical issues by the facilitator
complete a written assessment, made up of 10 questions. This is 'open book' - you can take reference material in with you to use during the assessment
do a practical testing exercise.

Equipment

Please bring the following material with you:

Safety glasses
Test equipment

Directions

This course will run in A block on Forth Street.

Find the Dunedin campus map and information here.

Enquiries

If you have any questions, please email AlliedTrades@op.ac.nz

Cancellation of a programme

Any programme of study, course or course occurrence may be cancelled or postponed where there are insufficient numbers. As far as is practically possible, we avoid cancelling or making other significant changes less than two weeks before the programme starts (or five working days for short courses). If this happens, we will do our best to suggest alternative study options for you. If you don’t want to do the alternative programme, we will give you a full refund. For international students, if a programme change affects your visa status, we will let you know and support you to find an alternative option. We also advise Immigration New Zealand of any programme change that will affect international students.