Advise a US scaffolding contractor on whether a UK CISRS card satisfies any American licensing or training requirement.

domain: cisrs.org.uk / saia.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Confirm CISRS (Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme) is a UK-administered training/card scheme run under CITB, established 1966, with progressive labourer-through-supervisor competence levels.
  2. Confirm the US has no equivalent government-issued scaffolder card scheme — OSHA imposes competent-person and training duties (1926.450/.454) on employers directly, without a national card system.
  3. Check SAIA's (Scaffold & Access Industry Association) role as the closest US analog: it accredits training institutions and serves as ANSI A92/A11 standards secretariat, but a SAIA-accredited course completion is not a portable 'card' recognized the way a CISRS card is in the UK.
  4. Note the 2026 NASC–SAIA Memorandum of Understanding as a cooperative step, and CISRS's own stated proposal for a single global baseline scaffolder training standard targeted for 2028 — this is a PROPOSAL, not yet implemented.
  5. State plainly: as of mid-2026, a CISRS card does not substitute for any US federal, state, or NYC-specific scaffold licensing/training requirement — it may carry informal credibility but has no legal standing here.

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