Following consultation with the Construction Plant sector including Construction Plant Association (CPA), Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) and Build UK, Construction Skills, the Sector Skills Council has withdrawn the use of simulation as an assessment route to achieve Plant and Plant-related qualifications, unless there is a very substantial reason that site assessment is not possible. This is stated within the Assessment Strategy for Construction and the Built Environment – Plant Operations and Lifting Operations dated 1st January 2018.
Cskills Awards is required to comply with the Assessment Strategy, as are all other Awarding Organisations, and for this reason the ability to achieve our Plant and Plant-related qualifications by Experienced Worker Practical Assessment (EWPA) will be withdrawn on the 31 December 2017.
From 1 January 2018, the new Assessment Strategy includes the use of workplace observation supported by video evidence ensuring workplace competence has been demonstrated. It is hoped that Cskills Awards Centres who regularly used the EWPA route will be able to adjust their processes to assess using video evidence to comply with the new rules.
All Awarding Organisations in the sector have agreed to implement the new Assessment Strategy on 1st January 2018.
This does not affect the EWPA status of qualifications outside of the Plant designation which will carry on as they do now.
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