New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22)

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Table 1: operative certificate equivalents for England Certificates below(1) issued in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland before 4/9/17(2) and England before 6/4/17 When a certificate approaches expiry you will be able to renew it at any time in its last year without losing the unexpired portion. For example, if you renew a certificate with 10 months life left in it, the renewed certificate will last for 5 years and 10 months from the date of renewal. You won’t need to be reassessed in the key certificates more than once every five years. As long as they are current, you can add as many other certificates as you like, and when you like. candidates - you can be qualified as an operative, a supervisor, or both. A supervisor qualification does not mean you are qualified to work as an operative. However, if you hold operative and supervisor qualifications, you Only applies to certificates that have been obtained or renewed by undertaking assessment or reassessment.

New style cards will be as shown in Figure 1 (although in practice, there may be some minor differences). The examples shown are for someone who holds all the possible operative and/or supervisor qualifications, as appropriate. Location and avoidance is another activity that does not come under the definition of street works. You therefore don’t need to hold an LA certificate to simply carry out location and avoidance of underground apparatus. (However, if you still want a card showing LA on its own, that is possible with the new style card.) 5. Renewing certificates on 6 April 2017, new regulations came into force in England, The Street Works (Qualifications of Operatives and Supervisors) (England) Regulations 2016

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You will be able to renew any certificate at any point in its lifetime. Training is not compulsory when renewing but assessment centres can provide it if you want it. A certificate is not valid once it has expired but it can be renewed any time up to 5 years after this date. This may be useful if you stop doing street works for a while then decide to return to the industry later. 6. Converting to the new style street works card

You can renew your certificates by undergoing reassessment but you can choose to do so by undergoing assessment if you want. The difference is as follows. Assessment is what takes place when you first obtain a certificate, and it involves a practical and theoretical assessment of your skills. Reassessment, which is intentionally less burdensome for certificate renewal purposes, involves only a theoretical assessment. However, the regulations allow you to renew a certificate by undergoing the original assessment if you choose to. You can also renew a certificate when it has more than a year left to go. In this case the renewed certificate will last for a fixed 6 years from the date of renewal (5 years if, for some reason, a certificate is renewed in its first year). You might want to do this if you have certificates expiring at different dates and you want to renew them all at the same time. Highways England employs Managing Agent Contractors (MACs) and Asset Support Contracts (ASCs) to manage its roads, known as the strategic road network, in given geographical areas.

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LA and O1 are the only two key certificates for operatives. If you are an operative, you therefore need the following to be qualified to excavate or reinstate: LA and S1 are the only two key certificates for supervisors. If you are a supervisor, you therefore need the following to be qualified to monitor excavation or reinstatement: Highways England has also appointed a number of Design, Build, Finance and Operate ( DBFO) or Private Finance Initiative ( PFI) contracts for specific roads in MAC areas. For completeness, TRSG streets in any particular LHA area also appear in the LSG for that area. However, these streets may be named differently between the LSG and the TRSG -

LA - Location & avoidance of underground apparatus KEY CERTIFICATE O-series certificates, for operatives only: O8 - Reinstatement of modular surfaces, concrete footways S-series certificates, for supervisors only: There is no requirement to hold any particular combination of non-key certificates. As long as you hold the key certificates, you can choose to hold as many or as few of the others as you like to suit the work that you do. For example, if you only wanted to be qualified to carry out reinstatement in hot-lay bituminous materials, you would need the two key operative certificates plus certificate O6. This principle applies similarly to supervisors.

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Sections of Highways England’s roads fall within Local Highways Authority (LHA) areas, but the LHAs have no responsibility as a highway authority or street authority for the Highways England road network. When serving a notice under NRSWA on Highways England as authority for the strategic road network, you must use the TRSG version of the street reference.