EG02:26 Adult Work Experience Guidance - Digital Download (PDF format)

EG2:26 provides practical guidance for NASC Members looking to offer adult work experience placements within their business. It sets out how placements can provide candidates with a realistic insight into the scaffolding and access industry, while helping employers develop recruitment pipelines, showcase their businesses and support workforce development.

The guidance covers the benefits and objectives of work experience, suitable roles and activities across yards, offices, estimating, design, manufacturing, site visits and business development, together with employer responsibilities for health and safety, safeguarding, induction, insurance and supervision.

It also provides practical advice on placement duration and logistics, a sample workplace agreement, considerations arising from employment rights legislation, and guidance from NASC Insurance Services. Importantly, the document includes example risk assessments for adult work experience placements in both office and site environments, providing a useful starting point for members when planning their own placements.

This guidance is designed to help members make work experience safe, structured and worthwhile for both the participant and the host business, while opening the door to new talent and helping strengthen the industry's future workforce.