New Roads and Street Works Qualifications (NRSWA)
We have City & Guilds and CABWI accreditations for New Roads and Street Works Qualifications (NRSWA)
We have a purpose-built training facility for these courses. The Street Works Qualifications are for Operatives, Supervisors and Reassessments.
We deliver the full Street Works course which is 5 days for Operatives (1 to 7 plus 9) or Supervisors (1, 10 to 14 plus 16).
We deliver unit courses to include Unit 1: Cable Avoidance (Cat and Genny) Training. Unit 2 or 10 Traffic Management: Signing, Lighting and Guarding plus more unit options.
Qualifications Breakdown – England & Scotland


Units of Competence for Trained Operatives
LA (1) Location and avoidance of underground apparatus
O1 (2) Signing, lighting and guarding
O2 (3) Excavation in the road/highway
O3 (4) Reinstatement and compaction of backfill materials
O4 (5) Reinstatement of sub-base and road-base in non-bituminous materials
O5 (6) Reinstatement of cold-lay bituminous materials
O6 (7) Reinstatement of hot-lay bituminous materials
O7 (8) Reinstatement of concrete slabs
O8 (9) Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways
Units of Competence for Trained Supervisors
LA (1) Location and avoidance of underground apparatus
S1 (10) Monitoring signing, lighting and guarding
S2 (11) Monitoring excavation in the road/highway
S3 (12) Monitoring reinstatement and compaction of backfill materials
S4 (13) Motoring reinstatement of sub-base and road-base in non-bituminous materials
S5 (14) Monitoring reinstatement of bituminous materials
S6 (15) Monitoring reinstatement of concrete slabs
S7 (16) Monitoring reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways
New Roads and Street Works Qualifications are for those employed in carrying out and monitoring works on the highway and cover a range of skills from those who need to safeguard their work by signing lighting and guarding to carrying out excavation and re-instatement work. They are available for both operators and supervisors. These qualifications provide routes to registration or re-registration on the Street Works Qualifications Register (SWQR) required under the New Roads and Street works Act 1991. Re-registration is required.
If you are working, or supervising works, in the highway you could be required to hold one or more of the Street Works qualifications, depending on your job role. There are sixteen units of competence for Operatives and Supervisors. Nine units are applicable to Operatives and eight to Supervisors. One of these units (Unit 01 (LA)) applies to both groups.