Why take an Assessment?
Customers choose registered OFTEC suppliers because they trust the OFTEC symbol as a sign of high quality workmanship.
OFTEC offer a wide range of courses for oil firing technicians. OFTEC assessment and registration are recognised as professional standards throughout the industry.
The Oil Firing Technical Association was launched in April 1991 to construct a framework within which oil firing in the United Kingdom and Republic Of Ireland could operate with a greater degree of technical expertise and efficiency. One of its first priorities was to set up a system of training and registration for Technicians engaged in commissioning, servicing, installation and plant operation with oil firing equipment. The scope of the scheme has since been extended to cover Technicians engaged in oil delivery.
How is the Assessment process organised?
OFTEC Assessments are undertaken in line with the requirements of certification bodies who are accredited by UKAS.
OFTEC assessments are undertaken at assessment centres approved by accredited Certification Bodies. The Certification Bodies are accredited to the requirements of BS EN ISO/IEC 17024: 2003 via UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) or another signatory to the unilateral agreement.
The assessments may involve both practical and theory tests administered by an assessor completely separately from any training activity. When the assessment has been satisfactorily completed, a certificate of competence is issued by the certification body with which OFTEC registration can be applied for.
Depending on your experience you may decide that you do not need to take any training and you would like to go straight to assessment. If this is the case, contact your local assessment provider and book an assessment only.
You are not allowed to be assessed by the person who trains you, and you are not allowed to take your assessment on equipment that you have trained on. (ISO 17024).
Assessment Centres
You need to book your Assessment direct with an OFTEC approved Assessment provider. OFTEC has approved a number of Training Centres at which courses are run, most also provide facilities for Assessments to be undertaken. For details of centres ...click
What is an Assessment?
Every OFTEC Registered Technician must hold a current certificate of assessed competence issued by a UKAS Accredited Certification Body for OFTEC Assessments.
Some examples are as follows:
OFT10-101 Domestic/light commercial oil firing servicing and commissioning course for Pressure Jet appliances
OFT10-102 Servicing and Commissioning of oil and bio-liquid fuelled Vaporising burner fired domestic fixed combustion appliances < 45kW
OFT10-105E Installation of oil & bio-liquid fuelled fixed combustion appliances & systems < 100k
OFT10-600A Installation of oil fuel storage and supply systems connected to fixed combustion appliances
After successful OFTEC Assessment in any of the above, you may apply for OFTEC Registration.