Plumbing Contractors Requirements - Washington
Listed below are the current state requirements for a(n) Plumbing Contractors in the state of Washington.
| Renewal Dates |
Total Hours Annually |
Units of Time |
Distance Learning Accepted |
Teaching Credit Accepted |
Committee Credit Accepted |
Self-Study Accepted |
| see below |
8-16 min. |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
Completion Requirements
Journeyman plumbers or residential specialty plumbers must complete 16 hours of continuing education within their two-year renewal cycle.
Plumber trainees must complete 8 hours of continuing education for each year of certification.
Courses must be pre-approved by the Department.
Renewal Dates
Individuals that renew between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006, are required to complete eight hours of continuing education courses.
Effective July 1, 2006, all renewals will require sixteen hours of continuing education.
If your birth year is:
(a) In an even-numbered year, your certificate will expire on your birth date in the next even-numbered year.
(b) In an odd-numbered year, your certificate will expire on your birth date in the next odd-numbered year.
Statute:
WAC 296-400A-028
Special Designations or Stipulations:
Plumbers will be required to obtain 16 hours of continuing education within their two-year renewal cycle, with four hours of basic electrical training included within the 16-hour requirement.
Plumber trainees must complete at least eight hours per year of classroom training from an approved continuing education course for each year of the prior certification period.
Trainee will be required during a two-year period to complete at least eight hours of plumbing code and at least four hours of electrical code from the currently adopted Washington state plumbing and electrical codes. The remaining four hours may be plumbing or electrical trade related classes.
Audit Potential:
N/A
Allowed Carry-Over Hours:
N/A
Applicable Course of Study:
Approved courses must be based on:
(a) Currently adopted edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code and National Electrical Code;
(b) Chapters 18.106 or 19.28 RCW or chapters 296-400A or 296-46B WAC; or
(c) Materials and methods as they pertain to the industrial practices of plumbing or electrical construction, building management systems, plumbing or electrical maintenance, or workplace health and safety.
Code-update courses must be based on the entire currently adopted Uniform Plumbing Code or National Electrical Code.
Proof of Compliance:
The department is not responsible for providing verification of an individual's continuing education history with the course sponsor.
The course sponsor must provide the department with an accurate and typed course attendance/completion roster for each course given.
(a) The attendance/completion roster must be provided within thirty days of course completion.
(b) In addition, the course sponsor must provide the attendance/completion roster in an electronic format provided by the department.
(c) The attendance/completion roster must show each participant's name, Washington certificate number, course number, location of course, date of completion, and instructor's name. The typed roster must contain the signature of the course sponsor's authorized representative.
If the course sponsor fails to submit the required attendance/completion rosters within thirty days of the course completion, the department may revoke or suspend the course approval.
Course sponsors must award a certificate to each participant completing the course from which the participant will be able to obtain:
(a) Name of course sponsor;
(b) Name of course;
(c) Date of course;
(d) Course approval number:
(e) The number of continuing education units; and
(f) The type of continuing education units.
The department will only use a copy of the sponsor's attendance/completion roster as final evidence that the participant completed the training course.
The department will keep submitted rosters of the continuing education courses on file only for audit purposes. The department is not responsible for the original of any ompletion certificate issued.
Non-Compliance Penalties:
N/A
Disallowed Credits:
An individual will not be given credit for the same approved continuing education course taken more than once in the two years prior to the renewal date.
No credit will be granted for any course not approved by the department.
A continuing education course must consist of not less than two hours of instruction.
Exceptions or exemptions:
N/A
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