CSCS To Stop Issuing Construction Related Occupation (CRO) Cards from 31st March 2017

​The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) is reminding industry to be prepared for the withdrawal of the Construction Related Occupation (CRO) card.

CSCS will stop issuing CRO cards from 31st March 2017 and all CRO cards issued since October 2015 will expire on 30th September 2017.

CSCS announced that skills certification cards carrying the CSCS logo must only certify the occupations with nationally recognised construction related qualifications, i.e. NVQs or approved equivalents.

The removal of the CRO card will impact over 230,000 CRO card holders and the alternatives available will depend on the qualifications held by the applicant and whether their occupation is categorised as construction related. In many cases CRO card holders will be required to register for existing or newly developed qualifications before their CRO cards expire.

For the avoidance of doubt, CRO cards issued before October 2015 will remain valid until their expiry date. All related occupation cards issued by the following Partner Card Schemes, SKILLcard (Construction Related Occupation), ECS (Related Disciplines), JIB-UK PHMES (Plumbing Related Occupation), will also remain valid until their expiry date.