Posted By Ali I would be very interested in members experience of cscs cards for Construction - what standard they have gone for, how they achieved it and if it was used towards CHAS accreditation. Also. what thry think are the pros/ cons of the scheme ? Thank you.

Posted By Ali ...sorry, I forgot to mention we are looking at CHAS accreditation and cscs cards in conjunction with this over HSE safety passport.

Posted By Steven Graham If you speak to Gordon Jenkins (CSCS scheme manager)or Brian Adams (CEO) they will let you know that IOSH does have a direct route of entry to CSCS at Platinum level, IEMA are i bit further behind and are doing the same. also for anyone who is into project management the APM's is also in the process of aranging routes of entry and they are at stage 2 of the e process where they have to map their grade system against the NVQ national standard to allow CSCS at aportion card grade to mebership grade. CSCS are also in the process of initiating their "smart card" scheme that will allow use of the system with other system more efficient. lastly the CSCS website has a load of data on it if you wish to look hope this helps

Posted By Robert K Lewis Sorry there was a gap in what I intended to say in para 2. I was trying to say that these cards will remain a very basic indication unless they develop into a form that will demonstrate ongoing improvement. Bob

Posted By Ali Thanks for the responses. I've looked at the cscs website, but could not find any reference to the blue / silver / gold corporate schemes nor the different coloured cards for visitors, operatives and managers. Can anyone give me a definitive answer ? Thanks,

Posted By Ali Steven, Thanks for the info and I've now printed off a copy of the booklet, which I'm reading ! Ali

Posted By Steven Graham but it is also very easy for action to be taken to remedy the complaints I agree completely, it is all down to the fact: 1) making comment on an open forum good or bad is not going to get them recognised by CSCS 2) has everyone who have ideas on improvement pressed IOSH to gather them and put a formal response to CSCS for discussion 3) Have IOSH recognised the need from its members to do this. To improve any system and recognise where it has far been effective and build on that means the parties who wish to help in this process need to push to have a forum to collate and gather ideas and constructively feed them into a system that can do something about it. making comments on IOSH or any other forum or "ideas to friends" does not achieve this. If there have been significant comments made on the forums on CSCS and nothing been done by IOSH in recognising its members needs in setting up a group to review this area and gather the comments,then i suggest you talk to IOSH who monitor the forums and suggest to them that the mods could also be utilised to collate ideas as well as monitor compliance to the rules (note to mods this is an idea not a complaint).