Construction Skills Certification

CSCS (2015) Construction Skills Certification Scheme [Online]. Available http //www.cscs.uk.com/ [25 September 2015]. 

The Agency is also endorsing the Construction Skills Certificate Scheme and will require all contractors staff to have attained the necessary level of certification. 

Certification by an appropriate body should provide confirmation that the holder is fully trained, competent and authorised to do particular types of work. In the UK there are many competence-based registration schemes that can be relied on to provide recognised evidence of competence, as is required by the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994. The most general of these is the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS), which at present covers the following occupations ... 

CSCS Construction Skills Certification Scheme Safety and Health... 

Finally, it is absolutely essential that the nozzlemen be properly trained, since it is they who control the final quality of the fibre shotcrete application. In North America, the American Concrete Institute has developed detailed policies for the certification of shotcrete nozzlemen [74]. For major projects, it is wise to require all the nozzlemen proposed for the shotcrete applications to shoot preconstruction test panels, constructed with the same reinforcing and other details as specified for the structural repair itself. This enables them to become fami I iar with the materials and procedures to be used on thejobsite, and permits an evaluation of their skills. 

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