ESA Course Calendar and Prices
Please explore the information available below and contact us to enquire about availability of places on the course(s) of your choice.
Calendar of ESA courses to be delivered in Portsmouth in the 2024 calendar year. All prices are inclusive of UK VAT.
2024ESACourseCalendar.pdf
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This is the list of ESA courses to be delivered in Portsmouth in the 2025 calendar year. All prices are inclusive of UK VAT. The calendar for new certification courses is available below. Our customers who are due for recertification in 2025 will be invited to attend their particular course well in advance of their certificates' expiry date.
2025ESAcoursesprices.pdf
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This is the calendar of all ESA certification courses to be delivered in Portsmouth in 2025. Our customers who are due for recertification in 2025 will be invited to attend their particular course well in advance of their certificates' expiry date.
2025ESACertificationCalendar.pdf
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Important information for Re-Certification:
We will be inviting our past delegates for recertification in weeks 5, 6, 9, 10, 18, 19, 23, 24, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 44 and 45, timed to optimise everyone's certification periods.
If you have not received an invitation from us to attend your re-certification course by two months before the certificates' expiry date, please contact us. If you wish to attend a re-certification course with us but do not hold our current certificate, please contact us.
How to Apply for an ESA Course
ESA course participants must meet the requirements and pre-requisites outlined in the rules concerning entry to ESA courses and course progression document available below.
ESA Training Structure Web2021.pdf
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The chart below shows which ASTA ESA-approved Courses match the desired standards and categories of (re)certification.
ASTA courses and pathways that support the ESA Training Structure. Please note that this map will be superseded for 2025 - please see below.
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ASTA courses and pathways that support the ESA Training Structure from 2025.
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Please contact us if you need any advice or assistance in selecting the right course(s) for you.
ESA course participants must also meet ESA's visual acuity requirements; the Visual Acuity Form (please click on the link below to download our form) can be taken to your local optician or optometrist who should be able to conduct the test. Please note that a general eye test is not compliant with the ESA requirements. An eye test normally goes to N5 whereas ESA expects N4 to be met. The employer should hold an audit trail of their certified employees' Visual Acuity results.
From January 2020 and in order that we do not hold any personal sensitive data, we no longer ask delegates to send or bring their VA forms to us. Instead, ESA expects the employers to have auditable records of VA of their employees.
ASTA Visual Acuity Form 2017.pdf
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To apply for a place on a course, please send us the completed application and booking forms. For ESA audit purposes we need one application form per delegate. Courses for more than one person can be made on a single booking form. In that case, you can leave booking forms for other people blank.
If you wish to apply for a certification or re-certification as an operator (Cat3) or inspector (Cat2), please download and complete one application form per person and have it signed. Please also complete the booking form - available for download below - one booking form can be used for more than one person from the same organisation.
01.ESAcafCat3Cat2-2024.pdf
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If you wish to apply for a certification or re-certification as an instructor (Cat1), please download and complete one application form per person and have it signed. Please also complete the booking form part - available for download below - one booking form can be used for more than one person from the same organisation.
02.ESAcafCat1only-2024.pdf
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Please complete the booking form to accompany your application form(s).
03.ASTAbookingForm.pdf
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Please contact us if you have any questions.
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