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The NASC AGM was held at the Intercontinental London Park Lane on Friday 24 November and saw the election of a new NASC president Des Moore (CEO Trad Group) in succession to Alan Lilley (Commercial Scaffolding Ltd) in front of a packed audience of 160 members, guests and staff.

CITB have announced that they will withdraw from training delivery by 2020.

CISRS would like to congratulate AIS Training upon successful completion of their recent accreditation audit for CISRS Advanced Training, making it a fully accredited Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme Provider.

Leading industrial trainer, AIS Training is expanding its global reach after opening a training centre in Vietnam.

NASC and CISRS will be exhibiting at the Build Show 2017, October 10-12, at the NEC Birmingham – part of the multi-award winning UK Construction Week, which attracts 30,000 people and 650+ exhibitors under nine shows.

Simian Skill International and National Training Institute (NTI) part of the Babcock International Group have joined forces in order to gain CISRS Overseas Scaffolder Training Scheme (OSTS) accreditation for a new centre in the Sultanate of Oman.

NASC member representatives met with HSE Inspectors in Plymouth recently to discuss ways of raising awareness of scaffolding industry training requirements in the South West.

Following its launch on 1 July 2017, CISRS Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training has got off to a flying start.