The Water Jetting Affiliation (JTA) has launched a simplified its membership construction so extra companies and organisations can reap the benefits of being members.
The transfer is designed to help an thrilling membership progress plan for 2026 and focus consideration on the various benefits of being a part of the UK’s consultant physique for the water jetting business.
The WJA represents contractors, producers, gear suppliers, rent specialists, and coaching our bodies throughout the water jetting business, from strain washing to ultra-high strain water jet hydrodemolition.
WJA Chairman Lee O’Callaghan stated: “We’ve labored onerous during the last two years to digitise our programs and processes to make it simpler for members to interact with the WJA and achieve most benefit from their membership.
“Simplifying the membership construction is the pure subsequent step. It’ll be simpler for firms to affix the WJA and it’ll permit us to focus assets on delivering distinctive worth for our members, with extra companies and help we all know will probably be very useful to them.”
The brand new membership construction, which is being launched from January 2026, has been agreed by the WJA board following discussions with the broader member neighborhood.
Eight earlier membership classes have been changed by two: one for all firms and organisations that ship companies throughout the water jetting business, and the opposite, blue chip membership, for firms that fee water jetting companies.
WJA Director Leanne Smith stated: “The brand new construction additionally displays the fluid manner water jetting companies are delivered throughout our business, with companies capable of work throughout totally different sectors.
“We are going to, in fact, collect details about what our members do, so we will ship the particular help that they want and worth, and successfully symbolize their specific pursuits.”
Beneath the brand new construction, full WJA membership will value £400 a yr, whereas blue chip membership, for organisations that fee water jetting companies, stays freed from cost.
Present and new WJA members that ship water jetting companies can even choose to change into WJA audited members by present process a web site audit carried out by a WJA-approved assessor. This web site audit will probably be repeated each three years. Audited membership will value £900 a yr.
By turning into WJA audited members, water jetting contractors can provide prospects extra assurance that they meet WJA security and high quality requirements outlined by the affiliation’s codes of observe.
WJA member organisations will be capable to show new member logos on their web sites and documentation, They may even have free entry to all WJA codes of observe and different technical updates, by way of the WJA App.
All members even have free entry to Croner, which offers skilled authorized, HR, and enterprise regulation recommendation, in addition to help from the WJA’s technical supervisor and medical advisor.
Over the approaching months, the WJA may even be working with members and different companies to barter a variety of enticing unique service reductions on for its members.
Leanne Smith added: “Given the various advantages of being a WJA member, our new construction represents excellent worth for cash in contrast with the membership charges for different commerce our bodies.
“The efficiencies created by our digitisation drive and course of simplification all contribute to our potential to ship this worth whereas additionally focussing on creating thrilling new member assets in 2026.”
This consists of the deliberate launch, in spring of 2026, of latest programs that can considerably increase an already standard Metropolis & Guilds accredited teaching and examination programme.
The affiliation may even proceed to develop its WJA App, which provides members entry on the transfer to a variety of assets, together with the teaching and examination programme and WJA codes of observe, which may even endure important improvement in 2026.
