Competency Management for Accountable Persons (E-learning)

Managing Competence in Higher-Risk Buildings, Online

Accountable Persons and Principal Accountable Persons can appoint others to carry out building safety work, but they cannot hand over their legal obligations. Regulations under the Building Safety Act 2022 require them to make sure that anyone responsible for, or helping with, those duties is competent.

This online course shows how to judge, build, check and record competence: in yourself, your team and the contractors, assessors and specialists you appoint.

Who Is the Competency Management Course For?

The course is for anyone who holds, supports or oversees Accountable Person duties in occupied higher-risk buildings, including:

• Accountable Persons and Principal Accountable Persons
• Building safety and asset managers
• Procurement and contract managers
• Housing associations and councils
• Freeholders and managing agents
• Build-to-rent and student housing providers

Why Is Competency Management Training Important?

A certificate shows that someone has been trained, not that they have the experience or behaviours to do the job safely. Familiar contractors are often appointed without a formal check and may subcontract safety-critical work to people nobody has assessed, and competence confirmed at appointment can go out of date if it is never reviewed.

The Building Safety Regulator can issue a compliance notice with a deadline, and failing to comply without a reasonable excuse is an offence. A breach of duty that, without reasonable excuse, puts people at significant risk of death or serious injury is also an offence. On conviction in the Crown Court, each offence carries up to two years' imprisonment, a fine, or both.

What's Included in the Competency Management Course?

• Concise, focused e-learning with full audio voiceover
• Certificate on completion
• Simple login and access on any device, including the iOS and Android app
• Up-to-date content on the Building Safety Act 2022

Delivery Method

Online / E-learning

Course Duration

30+ minutes

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:

• Understand the four elements of competence (skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours) and why all four are needed
• Recognise why competence is role-specific, and how PAS 8673 and BS 8670-1 help structure and assess it
• Review their own competence and close gaps through training, continuing professional development or competent support
• Identify the checks to make on organisations and individuals before appointing contractors, assessors and specialists
• Recognise when an appointment must be refused, and why a long working relationship is not evidence of competence
• Understand how review cycles, observation and tracking keep competence current after appointment
• Identify the records to keep for staff and external appointees, and how they link to the golden thread

Course Content

This online Competency Management course is made up of the following modules:

• What Is Competence? – skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours, role-specific competence and what the law expects of APs and PAPs
• Building Competence – reviewing and developing your own competence using PAS 8673
• Assessing Others – checking firms and individuals from tender to site, and when to refuse an appointment
• Monitoring Competence – annual reviews, central records and reassessment after a change of role or an incident
• Recording Evidence – what the Building Safety Regulator may ask to see, and how competence records link to the golden thread and the safety case report
• Case Study – a 22-storey refurbishment where many new fire doors fail inspection because a trusted contractor was appointed without a competence check

Assessment

Learners complete a final assessment before their certificate is issued. The end of course test is:

• 100% online
• Multiple choice
• Passed with a score of 80% or more

Certification

An IIRSM-approved digital certificate is available to download and print as soon as the course is completed, and is valid for three years.

The certificate shows the learner's name, company name, course name, date of completion, expiry date and the name of the approval body.

Why Choose Competency Management Training with Human Focus?

• Study any time, in short sessions that fit around work
• Less costly and disruptive than classroom training
• Discounts on volume purchases
• Excellent trainee support
• Gives a clear, repeatable approach to checking contractors and specialists
• Helps build the competence records the Building Safety Regulator may ask to see

Course subtitles are available in over 20 languages, including French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

This course provides awareness of specific duties under the Building Safety Act 2022. Completing it is not a formal assessment of competence to carry out statutory dutyholder responsibilities.

Related Content

• Health and Safety courses
• Fire Safety courses
• Construction & Engineering courses

For short courses a completion certificate is available at the end of the course. You can screenshot this or print it out to confirm completion of the training.

For accredited courses a certificate will be sent directly to you from the appropriate awarding body.

All you need to complete our e-learning courses is a computer, tablet or smartphone and an internet connection.

E-learning is flexible, efficient, and cost-effective, meaning you can progress through the modules at your own pace, at your own time to fit the training in around your work and personal life.

Short online courses also help employers to demonstrate that they have fulfilled their legal duties to ensure their personnel have been adequately trained.

Once the courses have been completed, a confirmation of results can be saved or printed as evidence. This can then be kept on record as evidence of suitable training.

• Learning management system that delivers training on laptop, PC or mobile app
• Automatically track all learning via online competency matrix
• Combine all records in one place – upload offline certificates
• Share training records via QR code training passport

You will instantly receive a confirmation email with your order details and your course login details will follow within one business working day.

Please note that course bookings can not be processed outside of normal working hours, over weekends or on bank holidays and will be processed the next business working day.

Step 1

Click the 'Buy' or 'Add to cart' button and you will be taken to our payment/booking page where you can choose to pay online now using a debit/credit card or you can pay later by invoice.

Step 2

Once you have paid for your course(s), you will receive an email from our team advising how to begin your training.

Step 3

You will be provided with a username and password which will enable you to access the e-learning portal. Login to start your course, once you have completed and passed the course, you will be able to download and print your certificate straight away.

Human Focus is a global leader in skilled behaviour change in the workplace.

We assist clients in achieving world-class business performance by helping to build skills and change habits that keep workers safer, healthier and more productive.

We were founded in 1992 and have grown over our 30 years of service to form close working partnerships with leading health and safety organisations, insurance companies and trade associations.

Our e-learning system supports subtitles in multiple languages for all courses. After starting any training module, learners can choose their preferred language for the course. Subtitles in any other language can also be added upon request.

Envico is working in association with Human Focus offering e-learning and is not accredited by or associated with any examination bodies, awarding bodies, institutions or organisations in any way whatsoever.