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Major contractors back scaffolding guide


Aaron Morby | Wed 18th April | 0:29

Thirty of the country’s leading contractors have backed a new guide on how to appoint and manage scaffolding contractors.

The UK Contractors Group, which represents contractors representing over a third of UK construction turnover, are supporting the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation guidance.

Stephen Ratcliffe, director of UKCG said “Our aim is to aspire to world class standards of best practice for UK construction and we are pleased to co-brand this guidance from the NASC as it complements our objectives perfectly.

“We recognise that NASC sets the standards for scaffolding in the UK and this guidance makes sound logical sense for all construction contractors to adhere to. ”

The guidance is a free specification document intended to provide advice and instruction on appointing, monitoring or managing all sizes of scaffolding contractors.

Rob Lynch, NASC President aded: “The demand for this guidance is a signal that industry is increasingly prepared to take the risks associated with scaffolding seriously. The UKCG’s support of this guidance will accelerate the adoption of this best practice across the construction sector.

The NASC’s 204 members have all signed up to this best practice guide.

Guide to Appointing and Managing Scaffolding Contractors is available on request from the NASC, via enquiries@nasc.org.uk and is available to UKCG members via the UKCG website.
 
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Major contractors back scaffolding guide


Aaron Morby | Wed 18th April | 0:29

Thirty of the country’s leading contractors have backed a new guide on how to appoint and manage scaffolding contractors.

The UK Contractors Group, which represents contractors representing over a third of UK construction turnover, are supporting the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation guidance.

Stephen Ratcliffe, director of UKCG said “Our aim is to aspire to world class standards of best practice for UK construction and we are pleased to co-brand this guidance from the NASC as it complements our objectives perfectly.

“We recognise that NASC sets the standards for scaffolding in the UK and this guidance makes sound logical sense for all construction contractors to adhere to. ”

The guidance is a free specification document intended to provide advice and instruction on appointing, monitoring or managing all sizes of scaffolding contractors.

Rob Lynch, NASC President aded: “The demand for this guidance is a signal that industry is increasingly prepared to take the risks associated with scaffolding seriously. The UKCG’s support of this guidance will accelerate the adoption of this best practice across the construction sector.

The NASC’s 204 members have all signed up to this best practice guide.
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:notrust::notrust:It wouldn't recommend that you use a NASC member would it? :amazed::amazed:
 
like i said b4 in a previous similar post - this will be a nail in the coffin of the small scaffold companies that do it right and are trying to grow- not to be considered to a large amount of contracts due to not being in the nasc
 
If we get down to basics we'll find out some interesting things.

The UK Contractors group is made up of over 30 of the country's major construction companies.
A number of these major construction companies were fined £millions a few years ago after a long running by the Office of Fair Trading, for what was basically price fixing and colluding against the interests of clients. A large number of the clients were local councils, government departments and health authorities.

Now the UK contractors group support the NASC's guidance brochure on how to hire a scaffolding company. Within that guide it states that they should only hire a NASC member.
I'm sure the NASC were upfront with the UKCG when the discussions were going on about the guidance being adopted. I'm sure they made the point that all of the NASC members strictly adhered to the NASC's own rules about a minimum of 90% of the workforce being directly employed.
Most of us mere mortals know that this rule is being ignored on a large scale up and down the country.
IMHO the NASC and the UKCG deserve each other. They are dinosaurs and we all know what happened to them.

I can see the day when someone takes the NASC to court for their abuse of their position. Surely by implying that only NASC members erect and dismantle scaffolds safely and to the letter of the law is basically slanderous and grossly misleading. It is damaging to smaller companies who run their businesses properly. The NASC conveniently forget that even their largest member companies started off as small companies once upon a time.

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Just out of interest, when the NASC carry out their audit visits to new applicants or even existing members, do the NASC visit every depot in that group to do the audit or do they just visit a head office?
 
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[/COLOR]Just out of interest, when the NASC carry out their audit visits to new applicants or even existing members, do the NASC visit every depot in that group to do the audit or do they just visit a head office?[/QUOTE]

With most of the big guns each depot is a seperate member hence so many members, so I assume each seperate member/depot gets audited.
 
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