Road/Street Works Supervisor

• Regulators:
  • Street Works Qualification Register
• Nations: United Kingdom
• Sectors:
  • Transport

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Regulatory or professional bodies

Primary regulator

• Regulatory authority: Street Works Qualification Register
• Address:

  58 Robertson Street; Glasgow; G2 8DQ

• Email address: swqr@sqa.org.uk
• Website: https://www.swqr.org.uk
• Phone number: +44 (0)345 270 2720

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Regulation

Regulation summary

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/22/contents (NRSWA) England, Wales & Northern Ireland
https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/the-road-works-qualifications-of-operatives-and-supervisors-scotland-regulations-2017 (Scotland)
The role of the Supervisor covers a wide range of activities and the qualifications you require will be determined by the type of work you will undertake.
As a Supervisor, your duties can include monitoring/supervising building and maintaining roads, carrying out improvements like road widening, and repairing potholes and cracks in road surfaces. Monitoring/supervising clearing areas of road to be surfaced using a range of equipment, such as diggers and hand tools like picks, rakes, spades, and shovels. Monitoring/supervising mixing surfacing materials such as concrete or tarmac and spreading them in layers. When the layers have been set, monitoring/supervising the flattening of the new surface using mechanical or hand rollers.
The work can also involve monitoring/supervising repairing roadside fences and barriers and central reservations, erection of road signs, plant and maintaining hedges and grass, marking roads using paint-distributing machines, and spreading grit or sand on icy roads in winter. Monitoring/supervising laying kerbstones and paving slabs, where the role requires this.

Regulation type

Licence

Reserved activities

N/A

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Qualifications and experience

New professionals

• Routes to qualification:

  If you have never held a Street Works Card before, you need to start by doing the following:

  Contact an Awarding Organisation (AO) to find out which Training Providers (Centres) are nearest to you, these are listed below.

  City & Guilds; 1 Giltspur Street; London; EC1A 9DD; Tel: +44 (0) 84 4543 0033; Email: enquiries@cityandguildsgroup.com; www.cityandguilds.com

  CABWI Awarding Body; 6 Bevis Marks; London,; EC3A 7BA; Tel: +44 (0) 20 7469 2641; Email: enquiries@cabwi.co.uk; www.cabwi.co.uk

  Highfield Qualifications; First Point; Balby Carr Bank; Doncaster; South Yorkshire; DN4 5JQ, UK; Tel: 01302 363277; Email: info@highfield.co.uk; www.highfieldqualifications.com

  Scottish Qualifications Authority; The Optima Building; 58 Robertson Street; Glasgow,G2 8DQ; Tel: +44 (0) 345 279 1000; Email: customer@sqa.org.uk; www.sqa.org.uk

  LANTRA; Lantra House; Stoneleigh Park; Coventry; CV8 2LG; Tel: +44 (0) 24 7509 1999; Email: awards@lantra.co.uk; www.lantra.co.uk

  NOCN; Acero Building; 1 Concourse Way; Sheffield,; S1 2BJ; Tel: +44 (0) 300 999 1177; Email: nocn@nocn.org.uk; www.nocn.org.uk

  Smart Awards; Unit F8A, Holly Farm Business Park, Honiley Road, ; Honiley, ; Kenilworth,; Warwickshire, ; CV8 1NP; Tel: +44 (0)2476 421125; Email:info@smartawards.co.uk; www.smartawards.co.uk

  Energy & Utilities Independent Assessment Service; Avon Business Centre,; 435 Stratford Road,; Shirley, ; Solihull, ; B90 4AA; Tel: 0121 713 8310; Email:enquiries@EUIAS.co.uk; https://www.euias.co.uk/contact-us/

• More about qualification: https://www.swqr.org.uk/SWQR/Home

Professionals from outside the UK

• Recognition for professionals outside the UK: All - there are routes to recognition for professionals from all countries
• Summary of routes:

  In the first instance, you'll need to contact the Register at swqr@sqa.org.uk. Depending on the country/ies of work, we will direct your enquiry to the appropriate government department.

• More about recognition for professionals outside the UK: http://www.swqr.org.uk

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Registration

• Registration requirements:

  Initially, you (the candidate) must be certificated by an approved Awarding Organisation, details can be found on the website www.swqr.org.uk.

• More about registration: https://www.swqr.org.uk/SWQR/Home

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Legislation

• Title of relevant act or charter:

  New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

• Website link to legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/22/contents
• Title of relevant act or charter:

  The relevant legislation can be found on the website.

• Website link to legislation: https://www.transport.gov.scot/publication/the-road-works-qualifications-of-operatives-and-supervisors-scotland-regulations-2017

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