CABWI Awarding Body, established in 1991, is one of the leading awarding organisations for the Street Works and Street Works Reassessment schemes in excavation and reinstatement in the highway.

Under the New Roads and Street Works Act (1991) (NRSWA), the installation, renewal, maintenance and inspection of underground apparatus in any street or road must be undertaken by competent people. The Street Works scheme provides the mechanism for recognising competence in excavation and reinstatement in the highway.

THE STREET WORKS SCHEME

All street works sites must be supervised by a qualified street works supervisor, and a qualified operative must be on site at all times during work undertaken in the highway. One person may not cover the operative and supervisor roles for a site at the same time.

Anyone acting as a qualified supervisor or operative must hold the correct Street Works qualifications for the activities that they cover. There are sixteen units of competence in total; nine units apply to operatives and eight to supervisors. One of these units (Location and avoidance of underground apparatus) applies to both groups.

THE STREET WORKS QUALIFICATIONS REGISTER

Anyone wishing to be a current recognised operative or supervisor for Street Works must gain the relevant Street Works qualification(s) and must register their certificates with the Street Works Qualifications Register (SWQR), under Sections 67 and 126 of the New Roads and Street Works Act.

CABWI works with SWQR to ensure that each qualified operative or supervisor is issued with an ID card which they may be required to produce on site to confirm their status. Street Works cards must be renewed every five years.

Operatives and Supervisors units

At BSD Training we can carryout the following units to allow you to gain a Street Works Operatives or Supervisors Qualification;

Operatives Units

Unit 01 - Location and avoidance of underground apparatus.
Unit 02 - Signing, lighting and guarding.
Unit 03 - Excavation in the highway.
Unit 04 - Reinstatement and compaction of backfill materials.
Unit 05 - Reinstatement of sub-base and road base in non-bituminous materials.
Unit 06 - Reinstatement in cold-lay bituminous materials.
Unit 07 - Reinstatement in hot-lay bituminous materials.
Unit 08 - Reinstatement of concrete slabs.
Unit 09 - Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways

Supervisor Units

Unit 01 - Location and avoidance of underground apparatus.
Unit 10 - Monitoring Signing, lighting and guarding.
Unit 11 - Monitoring Excavation in the highway.
Unit 12 - Monitoring Reinstatement and compaction of backfill materials.
Unit 13 - Monitoring Reinstatement of sub-base and road base in non-bituminous materials.
Unit 14 - Monitoring Reinstatement in bituminous materials.
Unit 15 - Monitoring Reinstatement of concrete slabs.
Unit 16 - Monitoring Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways.

Any of the above units can be taken individually, for example Unit 01 Location and avoidance of underground apparatus (Cat and Geny) or Unit 02 - Signing, lighting and guarding can be completed as stand alone units if required.