Providing a safe, competent and transferable workforce aligned to industry standards

Connected Competence improves efficiency and productivity for employers through the standardisation of base technical competence. It helps to eliminate unnecessary training and creates a workforce with recognised, transferable engineering skills that can be applied across roles and help support multi-skilling. It also ensures the workforce can transfer its competence achievements easily both within the sector and across the wider industry. Current technical competence is easily recognised and verified through Digital Badges.

Why it’s important

Assuring technical competence is vital to you and your workforce to ensure everyone works safely and securely and that the safety of your workforce is never compromised. Adopting a recognised base level of technical competence assurance means everyone is working to the same standards, proving their competence regularly and keeping up to date with current National Occupational Standards (NOS).

Acquire the benefits of having the same level of shared technical competence throughout your teams and across your peers in industry, allowing for competence achievements from previous employers to be recognised in your organisation instead of starting from zero. You can then build on these achievements to continue ongoing competence assurance. This circle of skills that Connected Competence provides means that you will be able to mobilise workers and fulfil stakeholders’ needs more quickly while reducing recruitment and mobilisation costs.

Employers have visibility of workers Connected Competence credentials, which can be accessed quickly and directly online without accessing sector specific or company specific databases. This means no chasing certificates, no duplication of training courses and reduced overall costs. You can also map the base technical standard to your own Competence Management System.

As the landscape of engineering and construction constantly evolves with new technology, practices and procedures, it requires employers to be able to adapt and transfer workforce skills. Connected Competence enables just this with non-sector-specific, transferable assessments that prove standardised technical competence.