SAFed launches safety access passport

Engineering inspection industry trade association the Safety Assessment Federation (SAFed) launched its health and safety passport scheme last week.
It claimed that although a number of passport schemes already exist, this has led to a lack of reciprocity between the various schemes. SAFed said this has created problems for workplace duty holders and engineer surveyors with the potential for the latter needing to hold a number of different safety passports to carry out their inspection activities.
However, the 'access all workplaces' safety passport for engineer surveyors employed by SAFed member companies will change that.
SAFed technical director Richard Morgan said: "Workplace duty holders can have full confidence that any engineer surveyor holding a passport has the appropriate health and safety knowledge to undertake their designated duties in a safe manner."
Before engineer surveyors are given a passport, they will have to undergo extensive training aimed at providing health and safety awareness applicable to both their clients' industries and the range of inspection activities they undertake.