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Welcome to the SSS Compliance Passport REGISTER

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SAFETY BEFORE PROFIT!

The SSSCP register provides invaluable evidence for clients, principal designers (Building Regulations), principal designers (CDM Regulations), principal contractors, and individuals to demonstrate to the Health & Safety Executive, Environmental Health Officer, and the Building Safety Regulator how building work carried out meets new legal competence requirements. 

The construction and built environment sector in the UK plays a crucial role in shaping our society, economy, and future responsibility. However, inefficiencies, poor decision-making, and a lack of competency at various levels have led to significant financial, environmental, and societal costs. With annual losses exceeding £21 billion due to errors and rework, the sector faces critical challenges that ripple across all aspects of safety, security, and sustainability.

Financial Costs: Ineffective planning, decision-making, and execution result in project overruns, delays, and inefficiencies. These issues not only burden businesses but also strain public finances, diverting essential funds away from critical services and infrastructure improvements.

Environmental Costs: Rework and material wastage increase carbon emissions and landfill contributions, directly undermining sustainability efforts. Poor building performance raises energy consumption, making it harder to achieve the UK’s net-zero carbon targets by 2050.

Societal Costs: Delays in delivering essential projects such as hospitals, schools, and housing impact communities profoundly. Poor safety standards also heighten risks, leading to accidents, injuries, and long-term health issues.

Challenges in Achieving Net Zero: The sector is integral to meeting the UK’s environmental commitments, yet inefficiencies and a lack of accountability hinder progress. Achieving net zero requires not just technological innovation but a cultural shift towards competency and sustainable practices.

Consequences of Missing Net Zero Targets: Failure to meet these targets could have severe consequences on a global and national scale. Increased climate change impacts, such as extreme weather events and biodiversity loss, would exacerbate social and economic instability. The UK could also face diminished credibility in international environmental leadership, affecting trade, investment, and global partnerships.

The SSS Compliance Passport directly addresses these challenges, empowering organisations to verify competency, enforce accountability, and align practices with safety, security, and sustainability principles. By ensuring clarity and responsibility throughout decision-making processes, the SSSCP provides a robust foundation for a sector that meets its commitments to society, the environment, and future generations.

What the Dame Judith Hackitt Report Asks For
The Hackitt Report identifies systemic failures in the construction and built environment sector and calls for a fundamental cultural shift. It demands clear accountability, robust competency frameworks, and a focus on safety, with societal impact at the forefront. The report emphasises the need for transparent decision-making and collaboration at every level to prevent future tragedies. It challenges organisations to take responsibility for their decisions, ensuring safety and quality are prioritised over cost-cutting or complacency. Dame Hackitt repeatedly stresses that achieving these changes requires shared accountability across all stakeholders—no single role or tier can operate in isolation.

What the Government Hopes For
The UK Government has placed sustainability and safety at the centre of its construction policies, especially through its net-zero carbon targets by 2050. It expects the industry to align with these goals by adopting innovative, sustainable, and safe practices. Central to this vision is the idea of proactive responsibility—ensuring the right individuals and organisations make the right decisions at the right time. Competency and compliance are essential for success, but the government also stresses the importance of empowering organisations to act as leaders in their own right, driving the industry towards better outcomes for society and the environment.

How the SSS Compliance Passport Supports These Goals
The SSS Compliance Passport directly aligns with the Hackitt Report’s recommendations and government expectations by providing a tool that ensures accountability without dictating competency. Instead of assessing individuals’ specific competencies, the passport enables organisations to verify that their workforce meets the required standards for decision-making. This empowers organisations to take ownership of their responsibilities while ensuring that every individual understands their role in contributing to safe and sustainable outcomes.

The SSSCP is not a substitute for competency but a means to enhance transparency and confidence in the decision-making process. It creates a structure where everyone involved—from duty holders and responsible persons to tradespeople—clearly understands their accountability. By removing ambiguity and supporting evidence-based decisions, the SSSCP fosters a culture where organisations can take informed, responsible actions. This approach not only reduces risks but also ensures that the right people are placed in the right roles, paving the way for long-term safety, sustainability, and sustainability

Mandatory training Competency Assessment - Individuals

Did you know that completing an annual training competency assessment based on an individual's skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviors (SKEB) is mandatory before being accepted on the SSSCP register?

The SSSCP offers a Behavioural Assessment Framework designed to evaluate individual behaviours within the Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Behaviours (SKEB) model. While we don’t define specific competencies, this framework ensures a clear structure for informed decision-making, focusing on behaviours critical to accountability, responsibility, and safety. Annual assessments are required to maintain your SSSCP membership, ensuring you continuously meet the standards needed to uphold your Compliance Passport.

WHAT IS SKEB?
When we talk about competence, we are talking about more than just qualifications (or knowledge) and must consider skillls, experience and appropriate behaviours that develop into comprehensive competence, ensuring the saftey of those in, or about buildings
SKILLS
Ability to perform and activity or task consistently with a specfic intended outcome
KNOWLEDGE
Assimilation of facts, theories practices in relation to a given role, function, activity or task
EXPERIENCE
Participation in relevent acticvites for observation of facts and events, leading to aquisition or improvement of knowledge and skills.
BEHAVIOURS
Observable things that an individual does or does not do

A LIVE DYNAMIC PROFILE: REVOLUTIONARY COMPETENCY VERIFICATION

The SSS Compliance Passport represents a bold and innovative step forward in competency verification.

Unlike anything currently available, it sets a new benchmark for the construction and built environment sector by introducing a dynamic, live profile system. This initiative goes far beyond traditional methods of outdated CVs, ensuring that competency assessments are no longer static or outdated.

With this revolutionary approach, every individual’s profile evolves in real-time. As skills, qualifications, and experience develop, the indiviudals profile is continuously updated, providing live, accurate, and relevant information. This ensures organisations are no longer making decisions based on outdated CVs but on dynamic, current data that reflects the individual’s true capabilities.

This initiative is not only innovative but transformative, empowering organisations to make informed, reliable decisions while supporting safety, security, and sustainability across the sector. By leading the way with this groundbreaking solution, the SSS Compliance Passport is redefining what competency verification means for the industry.

SSSCP MEMBERSHIP BEHAVIOUR PROGRAMME

At SSS Compliance Passport, we understand that true change in the construction and built environment sector cannot happen all at once. It begins with the individual. Through our individual behaviour program, we empower each person to make personal improvements, creating a ripple effect—one that extends to their team, their projects, and ultimately the entire industry.

We believe that addressing behaviours and fostering accountability at the individual level is the foundation for building a safer future, as called for by Dame Judith Hackitt. Through our gold standard journey, we guide individuals step by step, helping them enhance their skills, adopt better practices, and align with the highest standards of safety, security, and sustainability.

This individual empowerment leads to collective progress. By focusing on each person’s journey, we not only elevate their capabilities but also inspire positive change within teams and across projects. Over time, these small, consistent improvements pave the way for the transformative shift needed to create a safer, more responsible, and sustainable construction and built environment sector. This ensures a more socially accountable, environmentally sustainable, and economically resilient industry for the future.

UK AS A GLOBAL LEADER: COLLABORATION IS KEY

The United Kingdom stands at a critical juncture in the construction and built environment sector. We cannot afford to witness another tragedy like Grenfell, where lives were lost, or to continue bearing the weight of £21 billion in annual inefficiencies. The cost—both human and financial—is far too great. We must take control, drive accountability, and instil responsibility across every level of this sector. This is not just a moral obligation; it’s an urgent necessity.

This change must come from the top down and the bottom up, with leaders setting the example and individuals empowered to act. We have the innovative tools, the frameworks, and the knowledge to make this happen now. The SSS Compliance Passport is one such tool, ready to transform how we work, connect, and build a safer future. We didn’t wait for legislation, as Dame Judith Hackitt implored. She called for immediate action, and we have answered that call.

The UK has an opportunity—and a duty—to lead the world in safety, security, and sustainability in construction. By acting decisively now, we can become global pioneers, showcasing how collaboration, accountability, and innovation can create a sector that protects lives, saves resources, and sets a standard for the world to follow. The time to act is now. We are ready. Together, we will build a future where tragedies are prevented, waste is minimised, and responsibility is embedded in everything we do.

The SSS Compliance Passport is more than a solution—it’s the answer to one of the most pressing challenges of our time. It delivers the accountability, clarity, and framework needed to tackle these issues decisively. There is no alternative, no time for hesitation. The SSS Compliance Passport is ready to lead the charge, driving the change that must happen now to secure a safer, more responsible future. The time to act is here, and this is how we do it.

Empowering Your Journey: The Four Passport Types

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Apprentice

It is important for apprentices to have an SSSCP and be on our register because it ensures they are aware of their legal responsibilities and accountable for their competence from the very start of their careers. By being part of the SSSCP, apprentices are not only made aware of safety, compliance, and professional standards but also the gold standard they should aim to achieve. Our focus is on raising awareness about these responsibilities, fostering positive behaviours and best practices, and encouraging accountability as they progress through their careers in the built environment.

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Provisional

An individual with a provisional passport in the built environment is someone employed within the industry who does not yet hold formal qualifications and is not enrolled as an apprentice. This passport type acknowledges their current employment status while indicating that they may or may not be in the process of working towards achieving the necessary skills or qualifications. It serves as a marker of their progress while highlighting their accountability for meeting future standards, including the gold standard they should aim to achieve within the industry.

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Full

A full passport is designated for an individual who has achieved the necessary qualifications within their field. This passport confirms that the individual meets industry standards and possesses the required skills, knowledge, and experience to perform their duties in the built environment. It also demonstrates that they are accountable for maintaining these standards, with an understanding of their legal responsibilities and the gold standard they should continue to uphold throughout their career.

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Manager and professionals

This type of passport is for an individual who holds the necessary qualifications to serve in a professional or managerial role. It indicates that the individual has demonstrated the skills, knowledge, and experience required to effectively oversee teams, manage projects, and ensure compliance with industry standards in the built environment. It also highlights their accountability in upholding these standards and working towards the gold standard of competence and safety in their leadership role.

Collaboration is key to positive change

WAYS WE CAN HELP

Eliminating the Fraudsters

The SSSCP register eliminates fraud and counterfeiting by assigning each member a unique passport membership number and profile on the app. All documents, including digitally performed training competency assessments, are uploaded to the passport, reducing paper waste and supporting global sustainability efforts. This secure, digital process ensures compliance, promotes efficiency, and aligns with our commitment to sustainability. Additionally, SSSCP also verifies qualifications and memberships to maintain high standards and authenticity.

Supporting the public sector

SSSCP prioritises safety above profit, ensuring that life safety remains the main focus, even with budget limitations. By using the SSSCP passport process, organisations are not only enhancing safety and compliance but also becoming more sustainable and efficient. The digital passport system reduces the need for physical documentation, cutting down on paper waste and promoting environmentally friendly practices. To further assist the public sector in meeting their mandatory safety obligations, SSSCP offers discounted membership rates, supporting safety, sustainability, and efficiency across all sectors.

GLOBAL SUPPORT

The SSSCP register,along with its dashboard and compliance profile checker, supports the entire life cycle of contracts, from sales and tenders to labour planning, adjustments, inductions, and managing supply chain labour, while also assisting with investigations when necessary. By using the register, organisations are not only ensuring compliance and efficiency but also promoting sustainability through digital processes that reduce the need for physical documentation. This comprehensive support streamlines operations, enhances sustainability, and ensures legal and safety compliance at every stage of your contract.

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