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 trade.
The WJA represents contractors, producers, tools suppliers, rent specialists, and coaching our bodies throughout the water jetting trade, 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 methods and processes to make it simpler for members to interact with the WJA and acquire most benefit from their membership.
“Simplifying the membership construction is the pure subsequent step. It’ll be simpler for firms to hitch the WJA and it’ll permit us to focus sources on delivering distinctive worth for our members, with further providers and help we all know will likely 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 group.
Eight earlier membership classes have been changed by two: one for all firms and organisations that ship providers inside the water jetting trade, and the opposite, blue chip membership, for firms that fee water jetting providers.
WJA Director Leanne Smith stated: “The brand new construction additionally displays the fluid approach water jetting providers are delivered throughout our trade, with companies capable of work throughout completely different sectors.
“We’ll, after all, collect details about what our members do, so we will ship the particular help that they want and worth, and successfully characterize their explicit pursuits.”
Underneath the brand new construction, full WJA membership will value £400 a yr, whereas blue chip membership, for organisations that fee water jetting providers, stays freed from cost.
Present and new WJA members that ship water jetting providers may also decide to turn out to be WJA audited members by present process a web site audit carried out by a WJA-approved assessor. This web site audit will likely be repeated each three years. Audited membership will value £900 a yr.
By turning into WJA audited members, water jetting contractors may give clients further assurance that they meet WJA security and high quality requirements outlined by the affiliation’s codes of apply.
WJA member organisations will have the ability to show new member logos on their web sites and documentation, They may also have free entry to all WJA codes of apply 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 also be working with members and different companies to barter a spread of engaging 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 means to ship this worth whereas additionally focussing on creating thrilling new member sources in 2026.”
This consists of the deliberate launch, in spring of 2026, of recent programs that may considerably increase an already well-liked Metropolis & Guilds accredited teaching and examination programme.
The affiliation may also proceed to develop its WJA App, which provides members entry on the transfer to a spread of sources, together with the teaching and examination programme and WJA codes of apply, which may also bear important improvement in 2026.
