Verifiers
A verifier is anyone who has a need to check - or verify - the competence of an individual,
or the credentials and accreditations of a contractor, supplier or service provider.
Click here to register as a verifier and start using RCS services now.
You, your duty holders and your directors will know that you have a duty in law to ensure that anyone carrying out work on your site is competent. In addition to this legal duty, it makes sense from a moral and financial perspective that you only allow contractors and service providers that are appropriately insured and health and safety compliant to work on your site.
Modern complex organisations often find despite their best efforts and health and safety procedures accidents can still happen. These can leave them exposed to financial and reputational damage.
Consider this: if there was an incident on your site today, could you prove that you had taken every reasonable measure to try to prevent it?
The Reset Certification Scheme now delivers simple and robust solutions that can enhance
safety on your site, and your peace of mind.
RCS Company
Will allow you to create and set your own prequalification and post-qualification criteria that apply to the contractors and service providers working on your site. These criteria may typically include contractors' insurance policies, levels of cover and their expiry dates as well as such things as RIDDOR statistics. RCS Company automatically monitors contractors' and service providers information and compares them to your predetermined standards. You can see instantly if any fail to maintain the criteria and standards that you have set.
The comprehensive range of corporate information made available by RCS Company simplifies the prequalification process and effectively eliminates the need for prequalification questionnaires.
The RCS Company module is available for FREE for you 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
Because you may wish to carry out checks away from your desk, with 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 RCS Company and RCS Access with RCS App and you will benefit from the full suite of RCS modules on the move.
RCS App is available FREE for you to download and 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. The range of information is almost without limits, but information about fire alarm tests, areas closed due to asbestos removal and safety-related information are popular applications.
Real-time monitoring of contractors' entry, their activities and departures from site, provides a visual manifest of all tradespeople on site. It also provides valuable information that may confirm the accuracy of their invoiced time on site.
A modest monthly fee covers the provision of RCS Access hardware, support, maintenance and licensing.
The benefits
RCS enhances health and safety and offers protection against exposure to financial and reputational risk and damage.
- You and your organisation will readily comply with the law and HSE guidelines
- Competences of contractors and service providers will be verified in seconds
- Every competence check will be logged and stored for a period of seven years
- Should a claim arise the log can provide a clear a robust defence against liability
- You determine the criteria for contractor prequalification and the standards to be maintained
- RCS Access terminals control contractor access and provide real-time monitoring and security
- Information is always current - You may choose to recieve automatic notification of changes and expiries of insurances, accreditations, and other key information about contractors
- Risk assesments and method statements can be automatically displayed by RCS Access to contractors for their acceptance and progression on site
RCS saves you money
- Administration costs and associated time spent checking the competences of your visiting contractors will dramatically reduce
- Contractors and service providers will sign in and progress on site more quickly reducing their chargeable invoiced time
- RCS Access logs precisely when individual workers enter and leave site increasing accuracy of invoices as well providing a live and historical list of operatives that have attended site
- RCS Company presents contractors's corporate credentials uniformly and consistently - eliminating the need for time-consuming prequalification questionnaires
Complying with the law
For verifiers it provides a simple and FREE way of ensuring that anyone carrying out work for your company or organisation is qualified and competent. Anyone who manages construction operations or who is in control of an organisation undertaking construction MUST ensure those carrying out such work are competent to do so – the law requires it! By allowing someone to carry out work on your site you automatically have a duty in law to make sure they are competent to do that work. The Reset Certification Scheme now enables you to fulfil this duty in law.
- It is free for verifiers – and always will be
- Saves money – reduces the time and costs of validating qualifications and competences
- Protects you by ensuring only competent people work on your premises
- Peace of mind – proves to insurers that all reasonable steps are taken to establish the competence of those working on your premises or for your organisation
As insurance claims continue to rise insurance companies are keen to establish the liability of individuals or organisations when claims are made. Following a claim insurance companies often seek to mitigate their loss by shifting liability to another party, client or customer, where a legitimate reason exists. Initial failure by an individual or organisation to establish the competence of those carrying out work on its behalf can later provide insurers with a reason to shift liability (and costs), or in some instances refuse to pay out.
How to register as a verifier
Simply click here and enter your email address and a personal password, agree to the terms and conditions of use and that’s it. You can then instantly verify any cardholder attending your premises.
Please try the system for yourself. A simulation cardholder’s details can be accessed within seconds. After registering as a verifier, please enter the last eight numbers as they appear on William Slater’s card – 1990 7158 – followed by 281 which is the card verification code (CVC). On an actual RCS card the CVC would appear as the last three numbers at the top right on the back of the card, the same as on a standard debit or credit card.
Lost and stolen cards
If you have lost or had your card stolen, then please contact us as soon as possible.
Thank you in advance.