How do you get a White Card in Tasmania?
Your White Card Tasmania pathway: train online at your own pace, apply at Service Tasmania, and WorkSafe Tasmania posts your card.
Written byEdway
The short answer
Starting a construction career in Tasmania? Your White Card is the first step. Whether you are a tradie, a site supervisor or a surveyor, here is how to get a White Card in Tasmania.
In Tasmania you do the training online at your own pace, then apply for your card in person at Service Tasmania within 60 days of finishing.
Edway Training (RTO 91401) delivers the course and issues your Statement of Attainment for CPCWHS1001. WorkSafe Tasmania issues the Tasmanian construction induction card.
The course is online and self-paced
Our White Card online course fits around your life. You start when you like, and you can stop and come back.
Most people finish in around 6.5 hours. Your enrolment stays open for 2 months, counted from the date of your confirmation email.
If you do not finish inside that window, your enrolment is recorded as not completed and the fee is not refunded. You would need to enrol again.
The White Card training gives you the safety basics every construction site expects. You learn your safety duties under work health and safety law, how to identify construction hazards and apply risk controls, how to communicate and report on site, and how to respond to incidents and emergencies. It is general construction induction training that sets you up to work safely from day one.
The faster you complete your construction induction training, the faster you can apply for your White Card.
What you need
You need valid photo identification, a Unique Student Identifier (USI) and enough English to take part. After you book, you complete a short language, literacy, numeracy and digital check in your student account.
For the course itself you need a computer or tablet, internet and a web browser.
Applying at Service Tasmania
The card is a separate step, and you have to do it in person.
- Take your Statement of Attainment, a completed construction induction card application form and your identity documents to a Service Tasmania shop.
- Apply within 60 days of finishing your training. After 60 days you also need a written declaration from Edway confirming you completed the course.
- Pay the application fee when you lodge. Keep your receipt.
- WorkSafe Tasmania issues your card and posts it to you.
If your card has not arrived 60 days after you lodged the application, call WorkSafe Tasmania.
How much does a White Card cost in Tasmania?
There are two costs to plan for. The first is the online course fee, which you pay when you enrol with Edway. You see the current price when you choose Tasmania on the course page.
The second is the application fee you pay at Service Tasmania when you lodge for your card. Keep that receipt, because some employers will let you start work when you show it with your Statement of Attainment.
Starting work while you wait
Some employers will let you start work if you show your Statement of Attainment and your Service Tasmania receipt.
Keep both documents handy so you are ready the moment a job comes up.
How long the card lasts
There is no fixed expiry. Your card stays valid unless you are out of the construction industry for 2 or more years.
A valid Tasmanian card is recognised across Australia, so you can use it interstate. Whether you are building in Burnie or relocating to Brisbane, your White Card moves with you.
Next step
Choose Tasmania on the White Card course page to see the price and start the course.
Sources
- WorkSafe Tasmania — Construction induction cardWho issues the Tasmanian construction induction card and the card process
- Service TasmaniaWhere the card application is lodged in person
- Safe Work Australia — Model Work Health and Safety RegulationsConstruction induction card duty and mutual recognition across Australia (regulation 318)
- training.gov.au — CPCWHS1001 Prepare to work safely in the construction industryUnit code and official title
