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Which work can you supervise?
CBS uses supervisor registration conditions to define the building work a person is authorised to supervise.
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Stepping up to supervise building work in South Australia?
CBS needs to see the qualifications and onsite experience behind each supervisor condition. BLS helps prepare your work history and gets you ready for any technical assessment.
Know which supervisor conditions may apply
Turn site experience into a clear work history
Prepare for a possible technical interview
What the regulator will ask for
What will CBS assess for supervisor registration?
CBS uses registration conditions to define the building work you can supervise. Your qualifications, work history and technical knowledge need to support each condition in the application.
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Official sources used to verify the summary on this page.
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Do your qualifications and experience support that condition?
Applicants identify the condition that matches their onsite experience, then provide the relevant trade or professional qualifications and work history evidence.
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Can your work history show the right experience?
CBS expects a comprehensive Work History and On-site Experience Record showing experience relevant to each condition applied for.
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Could CBS call you for a technical interview?
CBS may use a technical assessment or interview to test knowledge, onsite experience and understanding of codes, construction methods and standards.
What BLS does for you
Show CBS the supervision experience you already have.
BLS helps turn your site history into clear evidence for the supervisor conditions in your application.
Help with the application
You know the work. We help get the application sorted.
Check which supervisor conditions fit the work you have performed.
Prepare qualifications and work history for those conditions.
Choose project examples that make your technical experience easy to follow.
Identify missing evidence before a CBS assessment or interview.
Who this is for
SA trades and supervisors applying for their first supervisor registration.
Contractors who need their own registration to support their licence.
Applicants changing or adding supervisor conditions.
When another service may fit better
Applications that need legal, financial or disciplinary advice outside BLS’s service.
Situations where the required work history, qualifications or records cannot be provided.
Service and cost
Know what is included before you proceed.
Licence and registration applications vary by state, class and how much preparation is needed. The free check gives BLS enough information to explain the service and provide a quote.
What affects the quote
The quote depends on where you are applying, the type of application, what records you already have and how much preparation is still needed.
BLS confirms the included application and evidence work before you proceed.
Regulator, RTO, insurance, police check and other third-party fees are separate unless a proposal expressly includes them.
RPL or training is recommended only where a genuine qualification gap is identified.
The regulator or RTO assesses the application or qualification and makes the final decision.
Your next step
Start the 60-second check
Start with the 60-second check.
Get clear on your likely licence, gaps and next step before you pay for training or start pulling the paperwork together.