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scoring for the contractors we work for, this will tion’s Gold Affiliate Membership of Logistics
quickly become essential to being part of the UK, which is now beginning to bear fruit.
supply chain. I’m delighted with how the Group A webinar was held last month to give
is working and how quickly we were able to put members a better understanding of what they
together and issue a comprehensive overview can gain through their free membership of
Guide. We’re now looking at producing further Logistics UK and a flow of useful resources
guides on a number of topics and plan to liaise is now being sent to the Group by Logistics
with Supplier members and external manufac- UK each month. Content will be shared with
turers to see what can be done to improve green the members via the Transport page in the
procurement efforts.” Members’ Area of the NASC website.
“This Working Group Mike Lloyd, Working Group Chair, said: “Fleet
will continue to produce Fleet & Transport and transport represents a huge proportion of a
guidance on a number This Group has two objectives; provide scaffolding contractor’s annual expenditure and
of topics and liaise with members with information and guidance plays a vital role in day-to-day operations. And yet
Logistics UK to ensure our relating to fleet matters, such as licences, easily accessible information on a whole range of
collective voice is heard at driver hours, loading and unloading and vehi- core practical issues isn’t readily available. This
the highest level.” cle inspections, and represent the members’ Working Group will continue to produce guidance
interests in a lobbying capacity. The Group has on a number of topics and liaise with Logistics
Mike Lloyd, also been tasked with maximising the NASC UK to ensure our collective voice is heard at the
Working Group Chair and its members’ return from the Confedera- highest level.”

New Audit Portal

e launched our new audit portal on 1 January,
having worked extensively on this project through-
Wout 2021. The site helps us keep members’ sensi-
tive data more secure and within our existing CRM. It also
allows for better automation when it comes to audit renewals.
Like any new software there were some bugs in the system
which caused a few bumps in the road initially for member
companies who had to complete in January. These were
quickly rectified by the developers and we were grateful to
NASC members for their patience. prices. Please do contact NASC Membership Manager via
We asked Bilfinger UK to be one of the first companies to test jamie.mcguire@nasc.org.uk to find out more about how you
the new portal for feedback as Bilfinger had developed their can save money and time.
own online portal ‘The Bilfinger Scaffold Portal’ which was
the NASC 2021 Innovation of the Year runner-up. Ryan Clegg, Review
Scaffolding Technical Authority at Bilfinger UK said: “Bilfinger We previously communicated to members that the NASC was
were one of the first member companies to test NASC’s new conducting market research on its position within the industry,
audit portal, which we found was user friendly and in-keeping to better understand what the NASC currently means and
with 21st century technology. It was easy to upload the informa- should mean to the whole industry. This research was carried
tion and it was genuinely an all-round better user experience. out independently by B2B International and a presentation of
A great piece of kit.” the findings was given to the NASC in November. A working
group, comprising NASC Officers & Directors as well as NASC
SSIP members from all regions, was set up to review and discuss
Last year saw our biggest number of assessments carried the findings of the report, which will be publicised in due course
out on members renewing their SSIP with NASC. This is a along with any proposed course of action.
free service which NASC provides to its contractor members
and enables them to qualify for other SSIP Schemes that We thank all those within the industry who contributed to
their clients require them to hold at substantially lower this research.