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    CIC health & safety certification: Building Safety Act updates for engineers

    March 3, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    CIC health & safety certification: Building Safety Act updates for engineers

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    The Construction Industry Council has updated its health & safety certification, delivered via Accredex, to embed the new dutyholder, competence and accountability requirements of the Building Safety Act for profession-specific roles across the built environment. Aimed at professionals who only occasionally visit site, the online course offers five CPD hours and is recognised as an approved route to AQP/PQP CSCS and SKILLcard, and to a CSCS Red Trainee Card for those on academic programmes. CIC will introduce the revised course in a free webinar at 12:30 on Monday 16th March.

    Technical Brief

    • Content is structured as profession-specific modules, aligning health and safety expectations with distinct built environment roles.
    • Building Safety Act duties are framed around competence and accountability, rather than generic site induction material.
    • Course design targets professionals who are not full-time site operatives but still enter live construction environments.
    • Flexible online format allows completion on any device, supporting dispersed design and consultancy teams.
    • For multi-disciplinary design practices, this offers a single, standardised mechanism to evidence non-operative site competence.

    Our Take

    Within the 140 Policy stories in our database, UK-focused safety and competency schemes like this CIC initiative sit alongside professional designation moves such as the new “chartered civil engineering surveyor” status agreed by RICS and CICES, signalling a steady tightening of formal competence expectations across the UK construction and civil sectors.

    The explicit 5 hours of CPD attached to the CIC course is in line with how UK bodies such as CSCS and SKILLcard have been moving towards quantifiable, auditable training inputs, which tends to make compliance checks on major infrastructure projects more straightforward for tier‑one contractors.

    Because this update is anchored in the United Kingdom and references CITB alongside CSCS‑type schemes, it is likely to become a de facto baseline for site access and supervision roles on larger UK projects, rather than an optional add‑on for individual practitioners.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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