Our ethos
The Reset Certification Scheme team share many years' experience in contracting, training and safety environments. They also share a belief that much can be done to improve workplace health and safety.
The flexibility provided by RCS combines with its powerful functionality to address many of the challenges that fit the 'must-do, but don't have the resources' category. These challenges have long faced and will be familiar to Estates and Health and Safety professionals, and to Construction and Facilities Management professionals alike. RCS now delivers innovative safety-improving, time and cost-reducing solutions.
RCS is forward-thinking, receptive to new ideas and will always seek fresh ways to improve compliance and health and safety.
Get in touch
Please contact us now and find out how RCS can meet your specific requirements.
0845 519 5768
"Compliance without compromise"
Advantages and benefits
The Reset Certification Scheme is a 'proof of competence' scheme. It substantially reduces the costs and time spent on proving and verifying qualifications and competences. Verified true copies of original certificates and documents are securely stored and can be quickly accessed online. The advantages and benefits of the scheme include:
- Reducing costs of secure proof and verification
- No more handling and processing large numbers of hard-copy documents
- Always up to date – a new card is issued whenever a new qualification is achieved
- Precious certificates remain safe with the individual – no risk of loss or damage
The scheme provides an instant and convenient means for anyone who must first prove their qualifications or competence to enter the premises an organisation or company. A verifier is anyone who must check (verify) the qualifications and competences of individuals who carry out work at their premises or organisation; the scheme provides a robust means of verification.
RCS is unique
The Reset Certification Scheme allows cardholders' qualifications and competences to be checked online from a PC or smartphone. Because these checks can be completed remotely this greatly reduces verification time and ensures the cardholder can proceed to their workplace immediately after arriving on site. A cardholder can present their card for verification to anyone with internet access - no special card reader, software, drivers or licences are required to use the full range of RCS services.
All qualifications and competences are accessed from a single card. Every original certificate and document has been independently scrutinised by RCS and a verified true copy is stored on our secure servers. An RCS card may be offered to a verifier as proof, underpinned by the qualifications and competences of the cardholder.
With a quick visit to the RCS website the verifier can instantly view, print or save cardholder details and verified true copies of the original certificates and documents. Verifiers receive immediate visual confirmation of qualification status through our unique traffic light monitoring system:
The qualification has expired
The qualification is still valid but has 28 days or less to the expiry date
The qualification is valid or is a lifetime qualification
Convenient and affordable
For verifiers the scheme is free and always will be.
For companies and individual cardholders there is usually a small application fee per card. The monthly subscription per card is then typically £2.00-£2.80 depending on the number of members. For your convenience we will collect your subscriptions monthly by direct debit.
Can be used anywhere
Anyone who needs to check (verify) the qualifications and competences of an RCS cardholder can accept the RCS card. The RCS card is very quick and easy to use. The information RCS provides is clear and consistent and completely free for the verifier.
RCS subscribers range from self-employed tradespersons to blue-chip multi-nationals. International airports, some of the UK’s largest shopping centres, universities, NHS trusts and main contractors, now use RCS to check the competences and credentials of their contractors and service providers. Be assured that when you use RCS you are in good company.
How it works
RCS comprises several modules: RCS Individual, RCS Company, RCS App and RCS Access. Each module may be operate individually or as part of a powerful integrated suite to meet your exact requirements.
RCS Company
As the client (or verifier) RCS Company allows you to create and set your own prequalification and post-appointment criteria. These then apply to the contractors and service providers working on your site. Your specified criteria and performance levels could, for example, apply to contractors' insurance policies, levels of cover and their expiry dates RIDDOR statistics and waste transfer arrangements.
RCS Company automatically monitors contractors' and service providers' information and compares them to your predetermined standards. You can see instantly those contractors and service providers that meet, or are failing to meet, the standards that you have set.
As a contractor or service provider RCS Company enables you to store your corporate credentials and make them available online to your clients and prospective clients. RCS Company addresses the full spectrum of information and corporate credentials often required by clients at prequalification stage and monitored post-appointment.
The comprehensive range of corporate information made available by RCS Company simplifies the prequalification process and effectively eliminates the need for prequalification questionnaires.
RCS Company module services are available FREE for verifiers to use.
RCS Individual
Allows true single-card entry to site by making available a contractor's or service provider's qualifications and proofs of competence accessible with one card.
Register as a verifier and with their permission and card code you may access any cardholder's details at rcscard.co.uk. Alternatively, scan their RCS card barcode with a smartphone (using RCS App) or RCS barcode scanner and instantly display the cardholder's qualifications and competences on your smartphone, PC or Mac. You may access RCS Individual from any standard internet browser - no additional software is required.
RCS becomes even more powerful when cardholder information is integrated using the RCS Company and RCS Access modules. As a verifier you may use the services delivered by RCS Individual completely FREE of charge.
RCS App
From an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry smartphone RCS App allows mobile access anywhere to a cardholder's qualifications and competences.
Mobile checks are stored on RCS servers for seven years. Integrate the RCS Company and RCS Access modules with RCS App and you will benefit from the full range of RCS services while on the move.
Using your smartphone please visit mobile.rcscard.co.uk to access the RCS App which is available FREE for you to use.
RCS Access
Is an optional service that requires contractors and service providers visiting your site to enter their RCS card details and responses at a touch-screen terminal to gain access. RCS Access logs and monitors their activities which you may view in real-time. Again, all information is stored for seven years and provides you with a powerful reporting tool. When compared with traditional systems using paper-based contractor compliance checks RCS Access speeds up entry to site by a factor of ten.
The touch-screen terminals offer a flexible medium through which you may inform visiting contractors and the range of information they may convey is vast. Advisory notifications about fire alarm tests, areas closed due to asbestos removal, and safety-related information are popular applications.
RCS Access gives you real-time visibility of all tradespeople on your site. It monitors contractors' entry, their activities and departure from site, and provides valuable information that can confrirm the accuracy of their invoiced time on site.
Call us now to find out how RCS Access can help you.
Additional Resources
The Cost of Accidents - CompassGroupEU1
Health and Safety Executive Guidance - CDM 2007 Training Presentations
Health and Safety Executive - Summary of Duties Under CDM 2007 Regulations
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, Part 2 Competence, Regulation 4
CDM News - "Criminals, Competence and CDM" - 10/09/10