With an ambition to set a common safety standard for more than 50
thousand workers across its whole supply chain, Highways England
has today announced a new Health and Safety Passport scheme.
Safety is at the centre of this new scheme. The passport strives
to simplify the method of gaining access to construction sites
with a personalised smart card, assuring competency,
qualification and fitness to work across Highways England’s
construction workforce.
Operations Regional Director at Highways England, said:
Safety is at the heart of everything we do at Highways England.
Our Health and Safety Passport scheme sets a common safety
standard for colleagues across our supply chain. It will make
it simpler for staff to transfer between sites and for
companies to verify that the people who work for them have the
training, qualifications and competencies to work on any site.
We hope that within 12 months all the suppliers we work with
will be using the system.
The card is checkable using smartphone technology to help build a
picture of the workforce and help colleagues to transfer between
sites and suppliers with ease.
Working together with over twenty different suppliers and
partners from across the industry, the common introduction course
delivered by Lantra covers all major projects and construction
and renewal sites. Alongside the common induction training, a
passport smartcard will be issued to the individual who will be
able to carry around their training record, qualifications and
competency details in their pocket wherever they work.
To gain register for training and your passport card, please
contact either the helpdesk on 0330 726 0225 or email
he.validate@mitie.com
The new Health and Safety Passport scheme was launched today (8
November 2017) at the national Highways UK
conference, in Birmingham.
