Passport Update April 2019
INTRODUCTION to PASSPORT SCHEME
INTRODUCTION to PASSPORT SCHEME
Across the Highways England network, hundreds of construction schemes can be underway at any one time. These schemes and maintenance works are delivered by a host of different suppliers and partners.
Ensuring that the workforce remains safe and competent is key to delivering all of Highways England’s work.
As part of Highways England’s 5-year Health and Safety Plan, Action 38 is to develop the Highways England Health and Safety Passport Scheme to help validate and maintain the standards of those who work on the network to help ensure everyone goes home safe and well.
The Passport system and individual smartcard makes it more straightforward for trained, qualified operatives to gain access to Highways England sites. It reduces the need for duplication of data, as the individual’s record moves with them from site to site, project to project – regardless of which principal contractor is responsible. The smartcard is easily updated electronically and can be read using the Passport app (Android and iOS versions available) or a PC-connected desktop reader, ensuring that records are accessible where they are needed, are up-to-date and reliable.
Passport launched in November 2017 and the timing was twinned with the start of the industry-wide Highways England Common Induction (HCI), co-developed by LANTRA, the leading industry awarding body. This streamlines the induction process by delivering core induction material once, so that only site- or employer-specific induction elements applicable to schemes on the strategic road network need to be delivered additionally.
The HCI gives the assurance that contractors have trained their staff in health and safety to a common standard, even if they are working between sites. This enables contractors to demonstrate qualifications and additional training.
For the Highways England workforce, the scheme means that they won’t have to repeat all elements of the safety induction if they move between sites.
Having all operative records in Passport provides one trusted source for all relevant skills, qualifications and training information about the workforce, as well as helping management of fatigue and logging key occupational health data, such as work restrictions. It provides reliable “authority to work” data when cards are presented electronically at the start of a shift, ensuring consistent, auditable data across the entire workforce to protect everyone.
Since its launch in November 2017, Passport has been adopted by many of Highways England’s key contractors, as well as many smaller companies within the supply chain.
Highways England encourages every contractor and company working for on its behalf to adopt the system.
An update to Raising the Bar 23 - Site Inductions will be published shortly which will provide clarity to the implementation dates of the Highways England Passport Scheme.
The Passport system is managed and supported by Mitie, using the market-leading software solution developed by Reference Point (this is the same team that deliver the award-winning Sentinel system for Network Rail, as well as many other client systems).
For Further Information and Keeping in Touch
Companies wanting further details are invited to read our range of documents available on this web page as downloads. These will be regularly updated and added to, so please do bookmark this site and visit us again.
Contacts;
he.validate@mitie.com
HCI@lantra.co.uk
How to Join
If your company has not yet signed up to Passport, please do so; it is a very straightforward process. For more information on joining Passport or achieving the Highways England Common Induction, please access our one-page guide “Getting Started”.
DOWNLOADS
Ensuring that the workforce remains safe and competent is key to delivering all of Highways England’s work.
As part of Highways England’s 5-year Health and Safety Plan, Action 38 is to develop the Highways England Health and Safety Passport Scheme to help validate and maintain the standards of those who work on the network to help ensure everyone goes home safe and well.
The Passport system and individual smartcard makes it more straightforward for trained, qualified operatives to gain access to Highways England sites. It reduces the need for duplication of data, as the individual’s record moves with them from site to site, project to project – regardless of which principal contractor is responsible. The smartcard is easily updated electronically and can be read using the Passport app (Android and iOS versions available) or a PC-connected desktop reader, ensuring that records are accessible where they are needed, are up-to-date and reliable.
Passport launched in November 2017 and the timing was twinned with the start of the industry-wide Highways England Common Induction (HCI), co-developed by LANTRA, the leading industry awarding body. This streamlines the induction process by delivering core induction material once, so that only site- or employer-specific induction elements applicable to schemes on the strategic road network need to be delivered additionally.
The HCI gives the assurance that contractors have trained their staff in health and safety to a common standard, even if they are working between sites. This enables contractors to demonstrate qualifications and additional training.
For the Highways England workforce, the scheme means that they won’t have to repeat all elements of the safety induction if they move between sites.
Having all operative records in Passport provides one trusted source for all relevant skills, qualifications and training information about the workforce, as well as helping management of fatigue and logging key occupational health data, such as work restrictions. It provides reliable “authority to work” data when cards are presented electronically at the start of a shift, ensuring consistent, auditable data across the entire workforce to protect everyone.
Since its launch in November 2017, Passport has been adopted by many of Highways England’s key contractors, as well as many smaller companies within the supply chain.
Highways England encourages every contractor and company working for on its behalf to adopt the system.
An update to Raising the Bar 23 - Site Inductions will be published shortly which will provide clarity to the implementation dates of the Highways England Passport Scheme.
The Passport system is managed and supported by Mitie, using the market-leading software solution developed by Reference Point (this is the same team that deliver the award-winning Sentinel system for Network Rail, as well as many other client systems).
For Further Information and Keeping in Touch
Companies wanting further details are invited to read our range of documents available on this web page as downloads. These will be regularly updated and added to, so please do bookmark this site and visit us again.
Contacts;
he.validate@mitie.com
HCI@lantra.co.uk
How to Join
If your company has not yet signed up to Passport, please do so; it is a very straightforward process. For more information on joining Passport or achieving the Highways England Common Induction, please access our one-page guide “Getting Started”.
DOWNLOADS
| july_2019_passport_update.pdf |
| getting_started.pdf |
| site_poster_a3.pdf |
| he_passport_-_gdpr_dpia_vfinal.pdf |
| he_passport_privacy_notice.pdf |