New Roads and Streetworks Act 1991(NRSWA) Training and Course Information
The New Roads and Street Works Act require that any individual who partakes in work on behalf of a utility company is qualified for the activities being carried out. Its purpose is to make sure that the local authorities and companies work together whilst works on the highway are taking place. This leads to increase in road safety and minimises traffic congestion to road users and thepublic.
NRSWA training is right for any company or individual carrying work on the UK’s roads and highways with the objective of: protecting the highway structure, giving respective counties extra powers to police highway works, ensuring safety, ensuring journey reliability times and minimising inconvenience to road users and the general public.
NRSWA qualifications are a legal requirement for those involved in the excavation and re-instatement of the highway and are specified within the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. The New Roads and Street Works Act stipulates that a qualified Operative must be on each individual site at all times. In addition to this a Supervisor must be available to visit the site at least once each day.
It is common practice for both client organisations and local authorities in the process of employing a contractor for works to be carried out on the highway, to specify the necessity of NRSWA qualifications.
Training can be tailored to individual needs by a combination of the relevant training units and modules appropriate to each candidate’s role. These main areas of competence include The location and avoidance of underground apparatus, signing, lighting and guarding, the excavation in the and monitoring of the highway and the monitoring and reinstatement of road surfaces and sub-layers.
On successful completion of the course, candidates will be awarded a City and Guilds Certificate and subsequent registration with the Street Works Qualifications Register (SWQR). Registration with SWQR is available for various combinations of units to suit individual requirements. Course candidates should consult with a training provider to identify which units need to be studied in order to gain the required certification.
Each unit of competence is assessed by observation plus written and oral questioning. Supervisors will be asked to take part in an additional task through which they are assessed while observing an Operative taking part in a practical assessment. Candidates are asked during completion of some units, to produce sketches and carry out risk assessments.
TQ Exel is one of the UK’s leading providers of training to the construction industry, we deliver NRSWA Training and Streetworks courses throughout the UK either at one of our training centres or at your business location. NRSWA Training