Step 1 > Create a user name and password to register your business

The Ausgrid Partners Safety Management System can be found by clicking the REGISTER BUSINESS button below:

REGISTER BUSINESS

Start by entering a user name of your choosing, plus your email address and a password. You’ll be emailed confirmation.

Step 2 > Register business details

Using your new details, login to the APSMS.

You may now follow the process to register your company details by answering the profiling questions and selecting the insurances and licences you can supply to support your registration. The information you enter here will determine your category and therefore, the cost of your registration.

Step 3 > Pay for registration based on category

You will now be categorised using the information you have provided. The cost depends on your category and the complexity of validating your business. Registration is valid for three years with a $150 + GST annual account renewal fee.

Category High Risk: $700 + GST

Category Medium Risk: $500 + GST 

Category Low Risk (4801 or equivalent): $300 + GST

Subcontractor: $0.00

Step 4 > Upload documents for verification

You will finally be prompted to upload copies of the licences and insurances you selected earlier in the process for verification. You’ll be emailed when your documents are verified, or informed of any corrections needed to finalise business registration. Documents may include but are not limited to:

-Public and Product Liability insurance of $50M for any one occurrence

-Workers Compensation Insurance for Australian companies who pay more than $7,500 in wages

-Professional Indemnity if prompted

If applicable, other forms, insurance, or licences such as:

– High Risk Licences

– Accreditation Documents such as ISO 9001

– Safety Management System certifications

– Evidence of your Safety Management System

Please note: Subcontractors will not be required to upload any supporting documentation.

To complete your registration, you will be sent login details to register workers and book their inductions. Please click to expand those instructions below.

Step 1 > Create a user name and password to register your workers

The Ausgrid Role Management Portal (where you register workers) will be found by clicking the button below:

REGISTER WORKERS

Login with the details sent to you by Pegasus.

The next steps are to add your workers to ensure their compliance to work for Ausgrid.

Step 2 > Add workers, choose roles and book training

Using your new details, login and add your workers in the system! You’ll start by selecting Manage Roles and then Add New Employee. From here you will upload a photo of your worker and enter their personal contact details, address, phone and email.

Continuing through the worker’s profile, the next step is to Add New Role. Here you will book their online induction, and they will be emailed a link and login details.

You can also book any required classroom inductions from the calendar of available dates and locations. All Partners and Subcontractors must register with Auercon before they commence training. Ausgrid and Auercon (RTO 90921) have entered a partnership with Auercon as the Registered Training Organisation, and Ausgrid trainers delivering training and assessments.

Step 3 > Pay for worker registration and access card

Pay for your worker’s registration and order their access ID cards to work for Ausgrid.

Worker registration costs $125 + GST per person for profile verification and the supply of a plastic access ID card and e-card, with renewal costing $90 + GST annually from year two.

Replacement cards are $30 + GST. A tax invoice will be supplied on payment.

Step 4 > Pegasus validates profile and applies roles

Pegasus will validate your worker’s profile, and once they successfully complete their online induction, their role will be applied to their profile. At this time, their plastic access ID card will be printed and sent, and their e-card sent to their nominated mobile number.

It’s important that you keep worker’s details up to date. You can login at any time to update your account or their profiles. During registration, you may also elect to invite your worker to the Worker Portal, allowing them to maintain their own profile to work for Ausgrid.

Details of the requirements of an authorised ASP with Ausgrid are outlined in Ausgrid’s ‘ES4 Accredited Service Provider Authorisation’ along with information on Ausgrid’s website.

ASP authorisation services provided by Ausgrid are an Alternative Control Service. The allowable fees applicable to these services are approved by the Australian Energy Regulator and are detailed in Ausgrid’s Connection Charges and Ausgrid’s ‘Connection Policy’.

The fees detailed in the Alternative control services fee schedule have been revised for the ASP Authorisation Management System and are detailed in Table 1 below. These fees are current as of 1 July 2022.*

*Fees do not include GST

Ausgrid’s training group provides Ausgrid-specific training for Accredited Service Providers (ASPs).

Training services provided by Ausgrid are an Alternative Control Service. The allowable fees applicable to these services are approved by the Australian Energy Regulator and are detailed in Ausgrid’s Connection Charges and Ausgrid’s ‘Connection Policy’.

Step 1 > Create a user name and password to register your business

The Ausgrid ASP Authorisation Management System can be found by clicking the REGISTER BUSINESS FOR ASP COMPANY REGISTRATION button below:

REGISTER BUSINESS FOR ASP COMPANY REGISTRATION

Start by entering a user name of your choosing, plus your email address and a password. You’ll be emailed confirmation.

Step 2 > Register business details

Using your new details, login to the system.

You may now follow the process to register your company details by answering profile questions and selecting the documents you must supply to support your registration.

Step 3 > Upload documents for verification

You will be prompted to upload copies of the documents selected for verification. You’ll be emailed when your documents are verified, or informed of any corrections needed to finalise business registration. Documents may include:

• • Professional Indemnity Insurance (Level 1 ASPs only)
  • Bank Guarantee (Level 1 ASPs only)
  • Department of Planning and Environment Company Accreditation Letter

Step 4 > Attend company authorisation meeting

If you are applying for an initial ASP company authorisation, you must attend an in-person meeting with Ausgrid. This meeting will provide your company with information for working safely on or near Ausgrid’s network, Ausgrid procedures and processes relevant to your work, and allow you to ask questions regarding ASP authorisation and compliance.

Step 1 > Login to register your workers

The Ausgrid ASP Authorisation Management System to register your workers can be found by clicking the button below:

REGISTER WORKERS

Login with the details sent to you by Pegasus.

The next steps are to add your workers to ensure their compliance to work on or near Ausgrid’s network as an authorised ASP. If a worker is already registered with Ausgrid, you can search and select their profile to add the correct role/s (ASP Authorisations) in this system.

Step 2 > Add workers

Start by selecting Manage Roles and then Add New Employee. Upload a photo of your worker and enter their personal contact details, address, phone and email.

Step 3 > Choose roles (ASP Authorisations) and book information session & classroom training

Continuing through the worker’s profile, the next step is to Add New Role. Roles are the specific classes of ASP Authorisation for workers. Only select roles the ASP company and worker are accredited for by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, which match their accreditation documentation.

Workers are required to complete online ASP Authorisation information session, and they will be emailed a link and login details when a role is submitted in the system.

You can also book any required classroom inductions from the calendar of available dates and locations. All ASPs must register with Auercon before they commence training. Ausgrid and Auercon (RTO 90921) have entered a partnership with Auercon as the Registered Training Organisation, and Ausgrid trainers delivering training and assessments.

Pegasus validates profile and applies roles

Pegasus will validate your worker’s profile, and once they successfully complete their online ASP Authorisation information session, their role will be applied to their profile. At this time, their plastic access ID card will be printed and sent.

Ausgrid field auditors will be scanning the cards of ASP workers to ensure their compliance, so they must be carried at all times when working on or near Ausgrid’s network.

It’s important that you keep all company and worker details up to date. You can login at any time to update your account or their profiles. During registration, you may also elect to invite your worker to the Worker Portal, allowing them to maintain their own profile to work on or near Ausgrid’s network.