{"id":"be40245a-821d-442b-b517-1fa126d2625d","task":"Advise a US scaffolding contractor on whether a UK CISRS card satisfies any American licensing or training requirement.","domain":"cisrs.org.uk / saia.org","steps":["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.","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.","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.","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.","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."],"gotchas":["Don't overstate the NASC-SAIA MOU as card reciprocity — it's a partnership announcement, not a documented equivalency/portability agreement between the two schemes.","The proposed 2028 global CISRS standard is aspirational as of this research — do not present it as already in effect."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T01:33:45.448Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/be40245a-821d-442b-b517-1fa126d2625d"}