Technically Competent Person of Grade 1 for Plumbing Engineering

Programme Description

Water Supplies Department (“WSD”) has formulated a voluntary scheme (“Voluntary Scheme”) to implement Registered Plumbing Contractor (“RPC”) system in advance through administrative means to facilitate the trade to adapt before enactment of relevant statutory provisions. The Voluntary Scheme is implemented in two stages.  Stage 1 only involves registration of plumbing contractors as RPC (Provisional) while provision of site supervision team (“SST”) for large-scale plumbing works by RPC (Provisional) will be implemented in Stage 2. The implementation details of Stage 2 have been stipulated in WSD Circular Letter No. 3/2022.

The RPC (Provisional) shall provide a SST to continuously supervise the plumbing works. The SST shall comprise team members of technically competent persons of grade 1 (“TCP1”) and grade 2 (“TCP2”) and be led by an AR who shall be equipped with higher academic qualification and working experience. TCP1 should 1) be the Registered plumbing worker; 2) possess 5 years’ experience in supervising plumbing works; and 3) completed the top-up TCP1 course.

This course aims to provide the practitioners with relevant training mentioned in item 3 above.  For those who have completed the training and passed the assessment, they must meet the requirements both in relevant work experience and relevant academic qualifications of the Water Supplies Department.  So that they are eligible to be appointed as authorized representatives and to take the duties related to "Registered Plumbing Contractors (Provisional)".      

Programme Outline

(Teaching and Assessment Materials are in Traditional Chinese)

• Introduction to Voluntary Scheme in Enhancing Plumbing Works Control

            - Registered Plumbing Contractors

            - Site Supervision Team

• Introduce site supervision plan for large-scale plumbing works
• Illustrate hierarchy of site supervision team
• Identify roles of supervisory personnel
• Classify supervisory duties of TCP1
• Brief Waterworks Ordinance and Waterworks Regulations
• Introduce WSD’s documents related to supervisory duties of plumbing works for reference

Assessment

• Learners' performance will be assessed by End-of-Module Assessment (EA).  Learners shall achieve the qualifying mark in EA for passing the course.
• The minimum attendance requirement is 70%. Learners are not allowed to sit for the End-of-Module Assessment (EA), if he/she fails to meet the attendance requirement.

Medium of Instruction (MoI)

The medium of instruction is Chinese, supplemented by English terminology.  All teaching materials and assessments are in Chinese.

Schedule

• 1 to 2 nights per week, 18:30 - 21:30 / 19:00 - 22:00 or Saturdays if necessary.  Please refer to the time table.
• Duration: 24 hrs. The normal duration for completion of the course is around 2 or 3 months.

Tuition Fee

HKD$3,880.00

Recognised Qualification

This course is recognised by the Water Supplies Department as an academic qualification for technically competent persons of grade 1 (“TCP1”) under "Registered Plumbing Contractors (Provisional)".       

Water Supplies Department

https://www.wsd.gov.hk/en/home/index.html