PlanBEE is a partnership between College and Ryder Architecture, and it began in 2016. It is specialised for the North-East construction sector. Trainees work in different companies during their training, and at the end they achieve a professional qualification at three possible levels: Higher National Certificate (HNC), Higher National Diploma (HND) or BEng degree. They are guaranteed a job at the end of the process. 

 

Steven Horn, director in B&W’s Newcastle office, said: "We need to see more young people coming into our industry with knowledge of different areas of the built environment. The programme is ideal preparation for how we want to develop our staff, which is to give them opportunities to experience different ways of working on various projects around the world."

 

Gateshead College’s deputy principal, Chris Toon, added: "It’s great to have three additional sponsors on board. The industry has called for employees to be skilled in a greater range of disciplines, such as surveying, landscaping, architecture and planning, and PlanBEE addresses this fundamental need."

 

Source: Insider Media

 

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Many construction contractors and clients require contractor staff to hold Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) smart-cards, which prove their qualifications, before allowing them on site. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance South East, we are an IT partner of the CSCS, which means that we can provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our WinTA.NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems. 

 

The integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”. This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant contractors recognition by and access to our hardware, such as clocking terminals, turnstiles, and door controllers. The wizard will run one of three scenarios when giving access rights to contractors. These are:

 

• Contractors who are completely new to the system.

• Contractors whose name exists on the system but their CSCS card has not been entered.

• Contractors who are fully recorded on the system and have used their card at other sites, but are new to this particular site.

 

For each different scenario the wizard will guide the user through the enrolment procedure. The result is that:

 

• The Contractors CSCS card is read (using a USB card reader attached to a Tensor.NET Client PC)

• Details are extracted from the card to update the contractor’s details within the system

• Options such as a company, site, shift group and department are assigned to the cardholder

 

To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today. We can handle any size of site: our Enterprise software is able to perform for global, multi-site corporations with thousands of employees/users, while our Start edition helps small businesses with between 10 – 50 users.