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This came up in a conversation recently that caught me off guard. My 15 year old daughter mentioned that some of her friends had bought fake driving licences online and local bars couldnt tell the difference. That led me down a slightly different path. It turns out it’s not just driving licences. There are platforms where people are offering what look like CSCS cards for a few hundred pounds, no training, no exam, no validation. On the surface, it might seem like a shortcut.

For years, the construction industry has relied on traditional routes to demonstrate health and safety competence on-site. While effective for site-based roles, these pathways were never designed with professionals in mind. That’s where Accredex changes the equation. A Better Fit for Modern Professionals The white card, developed in partnership with the Construction Industry Council, is built specifically for professionals who need regular site access: consultants, surveyors,

If you spend any time talking to people in construction at the moment, one word keeps coming up. Competence. It’s not new, but it is getting more attention than it used to. That’s partly down to the Building Safety Act, and partly because organisations are being asked to show more clearly that people going onto site actually understand the risks they’re working around. On paper, that sounds straightforward. In practice, it’s a bit more complicated. There are a lot of profes

Recent industry discussions have highlighted a shift in how training funding and certification routes are functioning in UK construction. With some training budgets reaching capacity earlier in the cycle and funding models evolving, many firms are reassessing how they plan competence development for staff who attend site. This shift creates an opportunity to look at how we prepare professional teams, not just operatives, for site access and risk management. Why This Matters N