NASC terminates membership for two firms that failed to meet required standards  

NASC, the UK’s leading trade body for the scaffolding and access sector, has terminated the membership of two member firms, following breaches of NASC’s membership requirements.  

One full contracting member and one supplier member have failed to maintain the standards required for NASC membership. The contracting member, based in NASC’s London & South East region, failed to meet the requirement that 90% of staff are CISRS cardholders.  

After a lengthy appeal process, it was clear that there was little expectation that the firm would be able to achieve our carding requirements.  

NASC CEO, Clive Dickin, said, “This is both an extremely difficult and a very simple decision. It’s difficult because we don’t like to exclude any firm from membership, but it was straightforward because of the high value NASC places on individual competence, as represented by the CISRS card.  

“To reduce risk and protect public safety, scaffolding needs a compliant design, installed by a competent firm, but crucially, it also needs competent individuals putting it up. Without that third leg, as represented by a 90% CISRS cardholding workforce, designing and building to NASC standards doesn’t guarantee quality, and standards are potentially undermined.” 

The supplier member, based in the North & North Wales Region, failed to comply with the high standards of behaviour expected by the NASC Code of Conduct and has also had its membership terminated.