NASC has announced that the National Federation of Builders (NFB) has formally endorsed its membership standards.
The move follows a review of the NASC membership charter and audit process.
NASC members are regularly audited to ensure the operations of the contracting scaffolding or access business are not only sound, but that the yard and site operations are ‘of the highest standards expected’.
Clive Dickin, CEO of NASC, said, “For almost 80 years NASC has published highly respected guidance and audits its members to that guidance, with proven results published in the annual safety report. It (is) truly exciting that NFB has formally recognised this, and today now endorses these standards encouraging their members to prescribe the most recognised and tested standards for scaffolding and access.”
In an exchange of letters, the NFB confirmed that it is ‘confident that NASC offers the highest standards in scaffolding and access across several areas, not least safety, and that using NASC contracting members is in the best interests of the builders, contractors, and house builders’ it represents.
Richard Beresford, chief executive of the NFB, added, “We are pleased to be supporting a trade body that adopts a clear, open, and transparent approach to its vigorous membership standards. We are committed to helping ensure that NFB members, and the industry at large, reduce the risks for all working on a construction site and following our review of NASC’s processes, procedures and gold-standard technical and safety guidance, we are confident that using a NASC member will do just that. Just as we ask clients to trust in the NFB Standard, so we are pleased to trust in the NASC standard.”
NFB and NASC will be working closely to promote good scaffolding and access procurement and use in the coming months.
