For many trades, a current licence or registration is a legal requirement, not a nice extra. Checking it before someone starts work protects the business, the customer and the worker.
These articles show employers how to check trade licences and registrations using public registers where they exist, what a welding or electrical certificate tells you and what it does not, and what to ask when a licence comes from another country.
A hiring a welder checklist for employers: which tickets and certificates to check, how to run a fair test piece, referee questions and warning signs.
Checks before hiring overseas workers in Australia, in order: VEVO work rights, references, licences, English, identity and police checks, and records.
How to verify overseas work experience in Australia: the records to ask for, how to check each one yourself, and where qualifications and licences fit in.
Verify tradesperson experience before a bad hire costs you: 5 checks covering licences, supervisors, work evidence, interview questions and a trade test.
