12th August 2013, 01:46 PM
Wax - ref 'My original question does the Unit director / specialist consultant/ manager need a CSCS card or is it something for the plebs? (not meant as an insult)'.
As a specialist consultant I can confirm that I do need a CSCS card - some clients insist on this when I am visiting construction sites in order to monitor work undertaken by contractors. Oddly enough, I am usually there to accompany county mountie types, who never have a CSCS card and rarely have any appropriate PPE - they seem to rely on the site agent etc to provide such PPE, which does raise some questions regarding their own employer's responsibilities. I have just renewed my CSCS Construction Site Visitor card, which involved a fairly Mickey Mouse multiple choice screen-based test that would be harder to fail than pass.
Beamo
As a specialist consultant I can confirm that I do need a CSCS card - some clients insist on this when I am visiting construction sites in order to monitor work undertaken by contractors. Oddly enough, I am usually there to accompany county mountie types, who never have a CSCS card and rarely have any appropriate PPE - they seem to rely on the site agent etc to provide such PPE, which does raise some questions regarding their own employer's responsibilities. I have just renewed my CSCS Construction Site Visitor card, which involved a fairly Mickey Mouse multiple choice screen-based test that would be harder to fail than pass.
Beamo