Accreditation
We aim to drive transparency and fair practices within the labour supply chain that make the construction sector a more appealing place to have a career.
Introduction.
Our accreditation is a newly formed standard for temporary labour and employment practices for the built environment sectors.
We have audit protocols for contractors, agencies and umbrella suppliers making us able to audit all tiers of the labour supply chain. Our audit is unique because it focuses on controls for ensuring the appropriate engagement of people whether that be directly, via labour supplier or labour coming via your subcontract supply chain. Our audit exceeds legislation and aims to drive ethical practices.
What problem are we fixing.
The UK construction sector is dependent on a temporary workforce with more than 750,000 of workers being self-employed and by definition are temporary workers, many coming via temporary labour agencies and/or payroll intermediaries.
The sector is at the mercy of the temporary labour market but lacks appropriate standards to ensure practices are fair, transparent, and legal. This accreditation scheme sets and standard and focuses on continuous improvement to eradicate bad practices.
Benefits of undertaking the accreditation
Benefits of using the accreditation for your supply chain
FAQ
For the accreditation, we conduct audits in person so that we can assess sensitive information without the need to use technology or the need to store the information. We never record personal or confidential data as part of the audit process.
Worker interviews are anonymous and we never ask or store personal information.
The worker compliance audits use a secure technology and process as we do process personal and sensitive information. Our client’s terms with the labour supply chain must support the audit activity. The passing of worker data in the labour supply chain is common and regularly built into the contractual practices.
Two tools is our specialist audit toolbox help client get beyond that single point in time audit which is achieve through the annual accreditation and help to test compliance on an ongoing basis. The are our Site Worker Interviews and Worker Compliance Audits.
Worker interviews can be a great tool for the subcontract supply chain to understand if they are maintaining compliance through their workforce and the sub tiers. By talking to workers, you can gauge how the workforce is being brought to a project and if they are being engaged fairly.
Worker Compliance Audits are ideal for contractors with labour agency or payroll intermediary suppliers. We carry out sample audits on pay slips, employment contracts, competency, insurance and right to work. Our technology enables us to complete this on mass assuring the largest of temporary workforces. This approach gives clients confidence that compliance is maintained throughout labour supply chains.
The accreditation process includes an action plan, which is drafted by Workforce Assured and includes guidance on the steps your business needs to take to pass and how you can achieve those steps. Your company can rectify any critical or major findings before a final audit result is assigned.
- WA is a specific standard relating to temporary labour management, which is not covered by the CAS.
- The CAS protocol is only designed for subcontractors and is unsuitable for agencies or payroll intermediaries.
- CAS auditors only require Health and Safety competencies to conduct an audit, and an IRCA lead auditor needs to review the audit. WA is built by experts in the temporary employment space, and auditors all have a temporary labour and employment practices background.
Our audits are all delivered in your head offices or a location of your choosing. You will be provided with an audit guide before you proceed, once you have been assigned an auditor they will be able to support any questions prior to your initial audit. You will have 5 days following the initial audit date to provide any outstanding documentation. You will then be provided with a report and audit outcome. Should you have any critical or major non-conformances, you will be given an action plan and be required to book a reassessment.
Our training and consultancy services via the Academy can be purchased through an annual membership package, or our services can be provided through individual statements of work.
Yes. The accreditation is a one-to-many share value model, meaning suppliers complete the process once and should not be requested to complete multiple duplicate audits for clients using the standard. All parties benefit from a shared model with reduces cost.
Customers can purchase a membership to the Academy or engage us for stand alone statements of work. We support clients with a broad range of services relating to ethical employment and labour management practices. These include building strategies and setting policies, building systems and governance, delivering training, and supporting working with winning.
