Building standards - verifiers: professional competency framework

Terminology

• Competence is the ability to make informed decisions and carry out work to a standard as specified in the CAS.
• Competencies are the attributes of an individual, applied personally or collectively as part of a team.
• Accreditation is the process of officially recognising an individual as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity, and by which their attributes are assessed.
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is the process of tracking and documenting maintenance of the skills, knowledge and experience that an individual gains both formally and informally as they work, beyond any initial training. It's a record of what is experienced, learned and then applied. It might also be known as Lifelong Learning (LLL).
• Validation is the process by which individuals are assessed for competency, to verify building work by their line manager using the methodology set out in the CAS.