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Welcome
to the Engineering Services SKILLcard website |
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Engineering Services SKILLcard registers
the skills and competence of people working throughout the
mechanical services sector of the building services engineering
industry.
A credit card-sized 'skills passport',
valid in the majority of cases for five years, is issued
to all individuals registered with the scheme.
To see if a SKILLcard is available for
your occupation, go to Occupations
Available.
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What
is Engineering Services SKILLcard? |
Engineering Services SKILLcard is
the industry recognised scheme
for the registration of personnel working in the building services
engineering sector throughout the UK.
It has been designed specifically with a view
to enabling:
- individual
workers to get on many construction sites and demonstrate
their awareness of workplace health and safety, and their skills,
competence and qualifications; and
- contractors
and service providers to demonstrate to third parties
– such as clients, consumers
and end-users – the competence, skills and qualifications
of individual members of their workforce.
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Who
can register? |
Anybody working in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning
and refrigeration industry, including ductwork and other specialisms
associated with the building services engineering industry –
such as service and maintenance, commissioning, domestic heating
and plumbing, etc.
You do not have to be employed in order to register.
You could be self-employed, an agency worker or unemployed. Membership
of the scheme is confirmed through the issue of an Engineering
Services SKILLcard – a credit card-sized 'skills passport'
– which is valid, in the majority of cases, for five years.
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Aims,
Objectives and Benefits of SKILLcard |
Engineering Services SKILLcard aims to provide the following benefits
to individuals:
- access to many construction sites
- industry-wide recognition of skills, competence
and qualifications
- improving knowledge and awareness of workplace
health and safety
- enhancing employment prospects
- identifying training needs, and the chance
to develop and add to existing skills
- confirmation of professionalism – and
differentiation from the industry's "cowboys".
Engineering Services SKILLcard aims to provide
the following benefits to employers:
- access to many construction sites
- highlighting those members of your workforce
with recognised skills, competence and qualifications
- enhancing the health and safety awareness
and professional quality of your workforce
- identifying the training and development
needs of your workforce
- demonstrating the competence of your workforce
to meet client requirements
- increasing client satisfaction and recognition
of your firm as a professional contractor/service provider.
For the industry as
a whole, Engineering Services SKILLcard:
- is a record of those working in the heating,
ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration industry who
have achieved a recognised level of competence
- raises standards of health and safety to
reduce risks and workplace accidents throughout the industry
- encourages employers (including those in
specialisms associated with the building services engineering
industry) to use skilled workers
- provides a means of identification for those
working in the industry
- provides the basis for undertaking industry-wide
manpower planning, to help the industry avoid skill shortages.
| Construction
Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) |
Engineering Services SKILLcard is affiliated to the pan-industry
Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS). The terms of
affiliation ensure that Engineering Services SKILLcard complies
with the requirements and standards of CSCS. There is no need,
therefore, for separate registration with CSCS.
Click
HERE to visit the CSCS website.
| Mutual
recognition of SKILLcard in Northern Ireland |
It has been agreed that there should be mutual recognition between,
on the one hand, the Construction Skills Register (CSR) scheme
run by the Construction Employers Federation (CEF) in Belfast
in relation to construction personnel and, on the other hand,
the occupations covered by SKILLcard. This mutual recognition
is in regard to both NVQ/SVQ standards and health and safety training.
The details of the CSR/SKILLcard recognition
agreement are contained in an exchange of letters between the
CEF Managing Director and the SKILLcard Project Manager.
Copies of this correspondence may be obtained from Viv
Shepherd at HVCA on 020-7313 4916 (employment_affairs@hvca.org.uk).
Application of SKILLcard in the Republic of
Ireland
Click HERE for further details.
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