Standards & Qualifications

 

Standards and qualifications play a vital role in building a safe, skilled, and professional construction workforce. They provide the framework that ensures individuals have the right knowledge, skills, and behaviours to perform their roles effectively and to industry-recognised levels of competence.

In this section, you’ll find information on:

 
- National Occupational Standards (NOS): The benchmark for good practice and competence in construction roles

- Competence Frameworks: Structured guides that define what it means to be competent in different areas
   of the industry

-  Apprenticeship Frameworks: Information on the pathways that combine practical experience with learning to
    develop the next generation of skilled construction workers

 - Built Environment Sectoral Partnership (BESP): Collaborative initiatives designed to support skills development
    across the sector

 - Published Plant Training Standard: A standard developed by CITB NI which recommends training requirements of
    persons operating, supervising and providing the training for plant operators


These standards and frameworks aim to ensure that construction in Northern Ireland continues to deliver work of the highest quality, underpinned by safety, consistency, and professionalism.