GRADE CARDS & ASSESSMENTS CORONAVIRUS


By Fiona Cornwall Employment Aff airs Operations Manager, SELECT


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ike everyone at SELECT, the Employment and Skills team had very little time to prepare for the COVID-19 lockdown. Thankfully, arrangements were made to give everyone laptops


so we could work from home, and a switch to Offi ce 365 proved a timely move. What would we have done without Microsoft Teams?


With these measures in place, we then considered what our initial priorities were and made contingency plans to enable us to meet our responsibilities and provide the appropriate support for the industry. Firstly, we were concerned for those individuals whose SJIB Grade (ECS) cards had recently, or would shortly, expire and who subsequently might not have been permitted to return to sites post-lockdown. We therefore produced a list of those individuals holding an SJIB Grade (ECS) card with an expiry date between October 2019 and October 2020. That list was then spilt up and distributed amongst our administrators. As soon as we began working from home, the team updated each individual’s record with an extended expiry date. Once our commercial card-printing partner was operational, we sent everything over to them to produce new cards with the extended expiry dates. Towards the end of June,


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Making the grade


T e ongoing pandemic brought a unique set of challenges when it came to ECS assessments and the processing of SJIB grading applications. But, as always, our team successfully adapted and rose to those challenges, introducing new routines to ensure an uninterrupted service that has helped contractors continue working


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