JSMITTY01,
I very strongly recommend you obtain a copy of the ICAO material on holding patterns, perhaps from the Jepp World Wide Text, and study it very carefully.
There is some quite misleading advice on this thread, what has been "common practice" in Australia, and the actual ICAO SARPs, are significantly at variance, as is some of the "advice" here, including on applicability of safety heights, lowest safe altitude, tracking inbound to the holding fix, etc.
Do your own homework from the original documents. Then you will be set in the right direction.
Tootle pip!!