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Recognised Exemptions for CISRS Card Applications

Recognised Exemptions for CISRS Card Applications

CISRS accept some other industry recognised Health and Safety qualifications as an exemption to the Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) test.

 

Those listed below must be completed within two years of the date of application:

  • CISRS/NOCN Online Health Safety & Environment Test
  • Completion of CISRS Recognised Scaffolding Apprenticeship Induction (Initial Trainee card only)
  • IOSH Working Safely/IOSH Managing Safely/IOSH Directing Safely/SHE For Constructors Workers/Safety Health & Environment for Construction Site Managers
  • NEBOSH (General/Construction/International) H&S Certificate
  • SMSTS Certificate
  • SSSTS Certificate
  • Site Safety Plus HSA
  • GQA Level 1 Award in Construction Health and Safety 

Current copies of the following qualifications will be accepted:

  • Current CCNSG Safety Passport (SCATS)
  • Current CCNSG Leading a Team Safely (SCATS)
  • Current MIST/BOSIET/OPITO Approved Offshore Certificate
  • SOLAS Safe Pass
Why has my CISRS Card number changed?

To distinguish itself from the CITB/CSCS database and to provide for new numbers to be added, NOCN Job Cards have created a new numbering system unique to CISRS. The new and existing numbers are linked on the NOCN system and and either number can be used on the CISRS/NOCN Card Checker.

Legislation specifies that anyone carrying out an inspection must be competent to do so. To be competent that person must have the necessary training, knowledge and experience. The following CISRS cards would prove competency:
  • The holder of a CISRS Scaffolder card endorsed with Inspection, would be deemed competent to inspect scaffold structures covered in CISRS Part 1 & Part 2 courses, provided their employer can demonstrate they have the necessary knowledge and experience.
  • The holder of a CISRS Advanced card endorsed with Inspection, would be deemed competent to inspect scaffold structures covered in CISRS Part 1, Part 2 & Advanced courses, provided their employer can demonstrate they have the necessary knowledge and experience. Contents and overall objectives of the CISRS courses can be found in the CAP 609 General Information Booklet Appendices.
  • A CISRS Basic Scaffold Inspection cardholder would be deemed competent to inspect a basic scaffold structures, provided their employer can demonstrate they have the necessary knowledge and experience.
  • A CISRS Advanced Scaffold Inspection cardholder would be deemed competent to inspect complex scaffold structures, provided their employer can demonstrate they have the necessary knowledge and experience.
  • For information about inspection of system scaffold structure, please refer to the System Inspection section on the CISRS website.
  • Supervisory (SUP)
  • demolition (DEM)
  • plumbing (JIB) (PLUM)
  • highway works (HIW)
  • specialist work at height (WAH)
  • lifts and escalators (LAEE)
  • tunnelling (TUNN)
  • HVACR – heating and plumbing services (HAPS)
  • HVACR – pipefitting and welding (PFW)
  • HVACR – ductwork (DUCT)
  • HVACR – refrigeration and air conditioning (RAAC)
  • HVACE – services and facilities maintenance (SAF)
The pass mark for each of the Specialist tests is 90%. To pass, you need to answer at least 45 out of 50 questions correctly.

When considering the direct supervision of a scaffolding gang i.e. a working foreman, leading hand etc, the operative in this role must be qualified to the grade of CISRS Scaffolder as a minimum requirement. For more complex scaffold structures, a CISRS Advanced Scaffolder must undertake direct supervision of the gang. Supervision of a Scaffolding project/site as a whole (liaising with client, deploying operatives, estimating, inspection, pricing, H&S issues etc) must also be carried out by a competent person, however this may not necessarily be a CISRS qualified Scaffolder. The 5 Day CISRS Scaffolding Supervisor training course is available from CISRS Approved Centres. It is aimed at scaffolding contractors first-line supervision i.e. Contract Supervisors, Foremen and Non-Working Charge hands. Upon successful completion of the above course the delegate is eligible to apply for the CISRS Scaffolding Supervisor Card.

CISRS will only issue a card based upon training and assessment that was carried out at a CISRS accredited centre. Therefore the whole CISRS training scheme would need to be completed for a CISRS Scaffolder Card.

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