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The SAFed Health & Safety Passport
Scheme was successfully launched on 25 March 2004. The scheme comprises
17 modules covering all the core activities of safety at work and
a number of industry specific modules including the construction
industry, quarries, manufacture, woodworking, metal work and primarily
all the workplace industries where SAFed member companies examine
equipment.
The purpose of the scheme was to provide a single comprehensive
passport for engineer surveyors to operate safely across the industries
in which they work.
The scheme involves studying the modules, passing individual module
tests before progressing and culminating in a 100 question exam
paper, which they must achieve 80% to pass. They then receive further
tutoring in the elements they did not get right, together with an
interview, before being issued with a SAFed Health & Safety Passport.
The scheme is administered by the company, who have a formal responsibility
for the competence and safety of their employees.
The scheme also follows HSE guidance1
and is further monitored by the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Accidents (RoSPA). The latter assess both the company training
process and the individual engineer surveyors. The passport is valid
for three years after which an update assessment will be made to
continue its validity.
The SAFed Health & Safety Passport scheme was created to provide
a single comprehensive passport and was favourably benchmarked against
other leading health and safety passport schemes, which are normally
provided by way of a two day course. The holder of a SAFed Health
& Safety Passport has been certified as competent to work safely
across all industry sectors where they examine equipment.
1. Passport Schemes
ë A Good Practice Guide - INDG 381
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