Why Choose Paddeco Third Party Certification?

If you currently use a third party certification provider (competent persons scheme), ask yourself these questions. Is the answer to every one, “yes”?

Is Your Third Party Certification Provider…

Correctly accredited with ISO/IEC 17024 which allows them to certify the person actually doing the job?

Assessing the competence of your operatives against National Occupational Standards?

Visiting you on-site to conduct mandatory workplace assessments

Assessing and developing you/your operatives periodically, between workplace verification procedures.

Using competent, qualified assessors and internal quality assurers, who are qualified and compliant in making judgements on installers.

Using internal and external quality assurers to ensure that quality control meets government and UKAS standards, and that there is ongoing monitoring and development practices implemented to the scheme.

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then read on.

Government Guidelines

The UK Government’s Department for levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), formerly the DCLG, set standards for Competent Person Scheme operators. These standards are the conditions for a UKAS scheme operator, and are an essential requirement for all providers of such schemes to meet. Below are some of those requirements, along with directives from the Competence Steering Group and The British Standards Institution (BSi).

“Assessors and inspectors must be competent at least to the equivalent level in the relevant sector Minimum Technical Competence (MTC) assessment procedure”

“Scheme operator to assess applicants as technically competent against agreed minimum competence requirements. For applicants this should be before registering them with the scheme. The assessment must include an on-site assessment.”

“Minimum Technical Competence (MTC) assessment procedures for assessing competence against National Occupational Standards.”

“Scheme applicants cannot be certificated until they have been assessed against the technical competence requirements of the MTCs.”

“Where ISO/IEC 17024 certification is used to evidence individual competence, the on-site assessment may take place after registration provided it takes place within three months.”

“Scheme operator to undertake surveillance of its registrants’ work, including carrying out periodic random assessments, this will involve a minimum of one on-site assessment of each existing registrant’s work. New registrants will need to be assessed annually for the first two years following initial assessment to establish a clean track record. This applies also to new registrants who have been certified under ISO/IEC 17024.”

“Individual installers to be certified under ISO/IEC 17024.”

Furthermore, UKAS, the organisation appointed by the Government to assess and accredit organisations stipulates the following in its CIS 7 document, UKAS Approach to Accreditation of Competent person Scheme operators:

“Competence of installers should be assessed by scheme operators against National Occupational Standards under a Minimum Technical Competence (MTC) assessment procedure”. (CIS 7)

Why Choose Paddeco Third Party Certification?

Is Your Third Party Certification Provider…

Government Guidelines

Paddeco’s Third Party Certification Scheme

Features Of Paddeco’s Scheme Include: