Competence Assessment Standard

The Competence Assessment Standard 

The BESA Competence Assessment Standard provides independent assessment of our members’ technical competence and commercial capability.

WHAT IS IT? 

Members must meet industry compliance, regulatory, legal and technical requirements through assessment of their competence.  This guarantees clients' peace of mind that contractors delivering their projects are technically competent, have a skilled workforce and deliver high-quality services.

Through a simple but rigorous process, BESA validates all members by scrutinising business management capability, workforce competence and technical compliance.

Successful completion of BESA’s Competence Assessment Standard is mandatory for membership and ensures that as a BESA member you can demonstrate that you work to the highest standards.

There are also a range of business benefits to be gained.

THE BENEFITS

DEVELOP YOUR BUSINESS 

The rigour of the BESA Competence Assessment process demonstrates your professionalism and commitment to quality providing you with a competitive edge over other businesses - BESA Membership is the badge of quality!

SPECIFICATION - WIN WORK 

BESA members continue to be specified as trusted organisations through clients such as insurers, councils and retailers, principal contractors, end-users and supply chain. 

SAVE TIME AND MONEY

Qualify for compliance schemes – through completing the Competence Assessment Standard, you deem to satisfy the audit criteria for other schemes such as Competent Persons, Vent Hygiene Elite and REFCOM Elite

Receive discounted registration for key industry services and lots of other exclusive BESA member offers, saving your £££s

DEMONSTRATE SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICES

Completion of the Competence Assessment process signals, technical competence, health & safety compliance, a financially healthy business, good customer service, investment in your workforce and a fair deal for clients and sub-contractors

By completing the Competence Assessment process and being a member of BESA, you are also able to access a whole range of other membership benefits such as discounted technical publications, preferential commercial insurance rates and free guidance and advice on technical, legal, H&S and employment affairs matters.

What is Involved

The BESA Competence Assessment Standard is straightforward.

New members are assessed on joining and at the end of their first year. Following that, assessment is done every 3 years to monitor and re-verify competence or more frequently if required.

BESA will be conducting all assessments remotely until further notice.  It is important that we protect the health, safety and welfare of our members and our audit team, whilst continuing to maintain confidence and trust in the marketplace for BESA members.

 

There are 3 key areas to the remote assessment:

 

remote view of documentatioN
observation of
technical activities

 

WEB CONFERENCING

 

We have created some handy guides and videos to help you through the process which you can access by following the links below:

BESCA Remote Assessment Guide

BESCA Remote Assessment Video

BESCA Technical Abilities Video Example

Golden Rules for Recording Technical Activities

Help Available

Regional Support

And don’t forget, your BESA Regional Manager is experienced at taking members through the process, they are always on hand to help.