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22nd January 2018
 
 
 
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The survey results on the question of .....:

Should each sign company be required to have as a minimum 1 trade qualified person? Like any other trade business, a qualification is required by State Government for the business to be accredited / ready for trade.
  • No. We are an unregulated industry. SignWriting is a trade that carries a qualification. The digital print industry doesn't carry the same prestige as physical signwriting. It is essentially software driven and as long as you have a good sales ability, some morality and design ability, anyone can effectively do it. To force our industry to have a trade qualified member of staff would play into the hands of unregulated suppliers like China via online sales. Given we already compete with overseas print facilities, it would be another nail in the coffin of our local industry. I understand where the question is coming from, but our industry isn't any better because we know more than someone else about colour and materials. It's largely price driven and helped by good design and software skills. Making that a trade qualification would be another expense and really only benefit the larger players and effectively kill the smaller shops. Imagine having to have a trade qualification to do real estate signs, temporary banners or sponsorship signs. It would kill the industry overnight given that a large percentage of sign companies in Australia are SME's who have enough government intervention in running a business anyway. (Shane Drew - Drews Sign It Pty Ltd).
  • No. This isn't a trade where peoples lives matter about a sign being printed in the correct pantone colour. I'm ok with sparkies and gas installers being registered and qualified, but seriously no, you're just going to increase costs, prices and wages. Painters have to be registered, go get a quote on someone qualified to use a paintbrush and a tin of paint and see how that stupidity will affect the sign industry. 
  • No. A qualification shouldn't be a must for the trade as a majority of it is digital now and the trade as such has evolved.  There is nothing that cannot be learnt on the job. Each machine works different and each software works differently.
     
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