Street Works Qualification Registration and Reassessment

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• Street Works Qualification Registration and
  Reassessment

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Working on the Highway

• The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA)
  requires undertakers to ensure that work to
  install, renew, maintain and inspect underground
  apparatus in the street is controlled by
  competent people.
• To meet these requirements, undertakers have to
  make sure that an operative, with the appropriate
  qualification(s), is on site when works are in
  progress.

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Working on the Highway

• In addition, a suitably qualified supervisor must
  supervise street works in most cases. The
  supervisor does not need to be on site at all
  times, and can supervise more than one set of
  works.
• A supervisor qualification does not qualify the
  holder to work as a qualified operative or vice
  versa.

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Working on the Highway

• A person may only act as a trained operative or
  supervisor for the type of work for which they
  hold the relevant qualification.
• Therefore, it may be necessary for a number of
  people with different qualifications to be
  involved with the work during its various stages.
  
• There is no limit to the number of qualifications
  held by one person.

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Current position

• Operative accredited units
• O1 Excavation in the road/highway (001, 002
  003)
• O2 Excavation, backfilling reinstatement cold
  lay (001, 002, 003, 004, 005 006)
• O3 Reinstatement hot cold lay bituminous
  materials (001, 002, 006 007)
• O4 Reinstatement of concrete slabs
• O5 Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete
  footways (001, 002 009)

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Current position

• Supervisor accredited units
• S1 Monitor excavation in the road/highway (001,
  010 011)
• S2 Monitor excavation, backfilling
  reinstatement construction lays (001, 010, 011,
  012, 013 014)
• S3 Monitor reinstatement hot cold lay
  bituminous materials (001, 010, 014)
• S4 Monitor reinstatement of concrete slabs (001,
  010 15)
• S5 Monitor reinstatement of modular surfaces and
  concrete footways (001, 010 016)

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New Regulation

• SI 2009 No. 2257
• The Street Works (Qualifications of Supervisors
  and Operatives) (England) Regulations 2009
• New
• New qualification and registration for SLG units
  2 and 10
• Registration of existing unit 2 and 10
  qualifications
• Accreditation reassessment every 5 years

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New accreditations

• Signing Lighting Guarding 002 and 010
• New accreditations for operatives and supervisors
  who solely undertake signing, lighting and
  guarding activities
• Registration process for new qualifications is
  the same as existing process
• Cost is shown on the SWQR website
• Once registered they will be subject to the same
  5 yearly re-assessment process as all other NRSWA
  qualifications

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New accreditations

• Existing Signing Lighting Guarding
  qualifications
• Anyone with operative or supervisor
  qualifications for signing lighting guarding
  from one of the approved awarding bodies must
  register the qualification by 5th April 2011 (if
  they wish to exercise their right to use the
  qualification).
• Failure to register by 5th April 2011 will result
  in the qualification being invalid for
  registration
• Proof of qualification will be required with the
  application for registration

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Reassessment

• If an operatives or supervisors registered street
  works qualification expires after 5th April 2011
  the operative or supervisor will have to site a
  qualification reassessment paper.
• The reassessment process has been introduced to
  make sure that operatives and supervisors
  maintain their level of skill and understanding
  since they registered or re-registered.
• The pass rate is 80
• Tests will take 20 minutes for each unit

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Reassessment Process

• Tests will be multiple choice and open book
• Test can only be taken at a register reassessment
  centre
• Candidates will be required to show proof of
  existing registration
• Candidates will be required to show proof of
  identity
• No training will be done at assessment centres
• The cost of reassessment is still to be worked
  out
• Candidates will know results before leaving the
  centre

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Reassessment Process

• The reassessment certificate will also be
  registered before a renewal street works card is
  issued
• The window for re-registration is 6 months before
  and 6 months after expiry of the earlier
  registration.

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Information

• An electronic copy of the Statutory Instrument is
  available online at
• http//www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/pdf/uksi_20092257
  _en.pdf
• The DfT guidance note explaining the changes and
  how they will affect you can be found at
• http//www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/network/local/stre
  etworks/streetworksqualifications/

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Thank you

• Christopher Perkins