Carsi Course Production

carsi-course-production — CARSI courses are Australian-produced (MUST-HAVE)

CARSI is an Australian training company (carsi.com.au), operating in the Australian restoration & cleaning market. Every course, module, lesson, quiz, trailer, thumbnail and piece of course marketing copy is AUSTRALIAN-PRODUCED. This is a hard requirement, not a preference — US/UK data, spelling, power specs, or products are defects and must be corrected before publish.

The Australian-production checklist (ALL mandatory)

You MUST create a todo for each of these and verify every one before a course is published or an edit is saved.

1. Language — Australian English

• -ise/-isation (organise, specialise, minimise, optimise, standardise), -our (colour, odour, behaviour, labour, vapour), -re (metre, litre, centre, fibre), doubled-l (labelling, modelling, travelling), mould (not mold), licence (noun)/license (verb), practise (verb)/ practice (noun), aluminium, tyre, sceptical, enrol/enrolment.
• BANNED US forms: color, odor, behavior, meter (as a length unit — use metre), liter, aluminum, mold, fiber, center, defense, "license" as a noun.

2. Electrical & power — Australian

• Mains = 230 V nominal, 50 Hz single-phase (400 V three-phase). Standard outlet = 10 A GPO (general power outlet), AS/NZS 3112 plug. Common circuits 10 A / 16 A / 20 A.
• Safety switch / RCD; portable electrical gear is test-and-tagged (AS/NZS 3760).
• Redo ALL amp/circuit/power maths at 230 V (a device is far fewer amps at 230 V than at 115 V).
• BANNED: 110/115/120 V, US "15 A / 20 A circuit" framing, NEMA plugs, "amps @115V".

3. Units — metric first

• Metres, millimetres, m², litres, kilograms, °C, kPa/Pa; airflow in m³/h or L/s (CFM only as an imported spec, with the metric equivalent). Convert imperial source data (e.g. IICRC S500 spacing in feet) to metric primary, imperial in parentheses.

4. Products & equipment — available in Australia, current

• Reference brands/models actually sold in Australia through Australian distributors, in 240 V/50 Hz configuration. State the date of the availability check (products change).
• Do NOT cite US-only products, US voltages, or US spec sheets as if locally available. Where a US brand sells in Australia, use its Australian distributor + 240 V model + AU pricing.

5. Standards & regulation — Australian

• AS/NZS standards; Safe Work Australia + state WHS regulators; state EPA; GHS/Safe Work Australia SDS; Poisons Information 13 11 26; Australian Consumer Law; TGA for any therapeutic/disinfection claims. IICRC standards (S500 etc.) ARE used in Australia — cite them, but frame within the Australian regulatory context, never as US-only.
• AU terminology: GPO, RCD/safety switch, tag-and-test, SWMS, JSEA, site induction, White Card.

6. Market context — Australian

• AUD pricing (note "inc GST" where relevant), Australian climate/seasons, Australian job types, Australian facilities (schools, childcare, aged care, strata), Australian examples and place names.

7. E-E-A-T — Australian authority

• Cite Australian bodies and sources; anchor authority to the Australian industry and the founder (Phill McGurk). Honour the SEO/GEO/AEO initiative (see memory carsi-seo-geo-aeo-initiative).

8. IICRC CEC terminology — licence-critical (MUST)

• CARSI is accredited as an IICRC CEC provider — NOT accredited to deliver IICRC courses or certification. In every course title, description, lesson, quiz and piece of course marketing copy, describe what CARSI offers as "IICRC CEC Accredited courses" / "IICRC CEC Accredited" / "IICRC Continuing Education Credit (CEC) courses".
• "Accredited" must always be paired with "CEC" (e.g. "IICRC CEC Accredited"). BANNED: bare "IICRC Accredited" (drop the CEC qualifier) and "IICRC Course Accredited" / "IICRC-accredited course(s)" — both wrongly imply IICRC accredits the course/certification itself rather than CARSI's standing as a CEC provider.
• BANNED in any selling/descriptive context: "IICRC courses", "IICRC certification course(s)", "IICRC-certified course(s)", "get IICRC certified with CARSI", or any copy implying CARSI delivers IICRC certification, examinations, or credentials. IICRC certification is obtained only through IICRC-approved schools and examinations; CARSI courses earn CECs toward maintaining an existing IICRC certification.
• CARSI DESIGNATION RULE (founder 2026-07-10 — MUST). CARSI issues its OWN credentials, the CARSI Southern Hemisphere Restoration Designations (e.g. "CARSI Water Restoration Practitioner", "CARSI Mould Remediation Practitioner") — like the RIA issuing its own designations, not teaching IICRC's. So a CARSI course is never branded with an IICRC discipline acronym (WRT/ASD/AMRT/FSRT/CCT/TCST) and never "[discipline]-aligned". Set iicrcDiscipline: null; put the credential in meta.designation + meta.designationProgram. Dual value: a CARSI designation that also earns IICRC CECs.
• FINE: referencing a student's own existing IICRC certification (recert reminders, member number, CEC tracking), a third-person fact ("FSRT is an IICRC certification covering…"), and citing an IICRC S-standard nominatively ("ANSI/IICRC S500"). BANNED: using an IICRC discipline acronym or "[discipline]-aligned" to name/brand a CARSI course or its trainees.
• Getting this wrong can cost the licence to sell courses — treat as a release blocker. Enforced by npm run check:iicrc-terminology.

Course quality bar (applies with the AU standard)

• Real, substantive modules (not stubs); consistent structure; correct iicrcDiscipline (or neutral for general/knowledge courses); CEC only when genuinely accredited (founder decides value).
• Course-card placeholder is data-driven (see CourseTextThumbnail); no ad-hoc stock cover images.
• Trailers are branded Remotion renders with audio (voiced via the sanctioned Synthex ElevenLabs config, single voice) — a silent trailer is a defect.

Verification (before publish / before saving an edit)

Scan the content and reject on any hit:

• US spellings (color/odor/meter/mold/fiber/center/license-noun).
• 115V / 15A circuit / feet / sq ft / inches without a metric primary.
• US-only products or US voltages presented as locally available.
• IICRC terminology: "IICRC course(s)" / "IICRC certification course" / "IICRC-certified course" / "get IICRC certified with CARSI" in selling copy — must be "IICRC CEC course(s)".
• Silent trailer (no audio stream). Fix all before the course goes live. Prod publish/unpublish remains founder-gated.

Governance

Prod DB is unreachable locally; course data changes go via the founder's authed admin session (guarded full-echo PATCH — preserve modules/price/publish/introVideoUrl). main = prod (DO deploy_on_push).

IICRC standards IP + AI use — prohibited (MUST)

Per the IICRC's published AI Use Policy and copyright terms on its official standards store (iicrc.gilmoreglobal.com), and its brand/trademark enforcement:

• Never feed IICRC standard text into any AI tooling. The IICRC prohibits entry of its standards and related intellectual property into any form of AI tool, and prohibits creating AI derivatives of its published and draft standards. This binds every CARSI content pipeline (course-asset-kit, AI course creation, prompt contexts, RAG/embedding corpora) — violation risks access suspension and legal action against the licence holder.
• Never reproduce standard text beyond a brief, attributed reference. Standards are copyright-protected and not printable ("printing limited to small sections for reference only"). Courses may reference a standard nominatively ("aligned to ANSI/IICRC S500:2021") — never paste its sections, tables or procedures. The course-kit excerpt heuristic (src/lib/course-kit/standards-excerpt.ts, scanCourseForStandardExcerpts) flags suspected pasted standard text at scaffold time — treat a hit as a release blocker until cleared.
• Never use IICRC logos or marks without written permission. The "IICRC" wordmark is nominative-use only; logo rights attach to Certified Firms/Registrants under signed agreements, and the IICRC publicly enforces violations (its "Invalid Firms" list). CARSI currently uses no IICRC mark — keep it that way unless the founder holds written permission.