Suites of National Occupational Standards

Find information about your National Occupational Standards suite, including its relevant frameworks, structures and projects.

The majority of the suites cover craft and operative areas but some areas are specific to technical, supervisory and managament (TSM) areas.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | M| O | P | Q | R | S | T | W

A

• Accessing operations and rigging
  
• Asbestos surveying and analysis (TSM, page under construction)
• Associated industrial services occupations

B

• Building information modelling (TSM, page under construction)
• Built environment design and consultancy practice (TSM)
• Built environment design management (TSM, page under construction)
• Built environment design (TSM, page under construction)
• Building maintenance, multi-trade repair and refurbishment operations

C

• Carving occupations
• Chimney engineering
• Cladding occupations
• Construction contracting operations management (TSM, page under construction)
• Construction contracting operations (TSM, page under construction)
• Construction design and management coordination (TSM, page under construction)
• Construction diving operations
• Construction and civil engineering operations
• Construction plant or machinery maintenance
• Construction senior management (TSM)
• Construction site management
• Construction site supervision
• Construction using off-site manufactured assemblies
• Controlling lifting operations 

D

• Decorative finishing and industrial painting occupations 
• Demolition

E

• Engineering surveying operations (TSM, page under construction)
• External render

F

• Fitted interiors
• Floorcovering occupations
• Formwork occupations

G

• Geomatics and site surveying management (TSM, page under construction)
• Geomatics and site surveying (TSM, page under construction)

H

• Heritage skills

I

• Insulation and building treatments 
• Interior systems

M

• Mastic asphalt
• Metal decking and stud welding operations

O

• Occupational work supervision

P

• Piling operations 
• Plant installations
• Plant operations
• Plastering 
• Post tensioning operations

Q

• Quantity surveying practice (TSM, page under construction)

R

• Refractory installations 
• Removal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste  
• Roadbuilding and maintenance
• Roofing occupations

S

• Senior crafts
• Senior site inspection (TSM, page under construction)
• Site inspection (TSM, page under construction)
• Site logistic operations  
• Specialist concrete occupations  
• Specialist installation occupations 
• Steelfixing occupations
• Stonemasonry  
• Sub-structure work occupations 
• Super-structure work occupations
• Supervising hire and rental operations (plant equipment and tools)
• Surveying property and maintenance business management (TSM, page under construction)
• Surveying property and maintenance management (TSM, page under construction)

T

• Temporary traffic management
• Testing, inspecting and thorough examination occupations
• Thermal insulation
• Town planning, conservation and building control (TSM, page under construction)
• Town planning, conservation and building control  technical support (TSM, page under construction)
• Transportation (TSM, page under construction)
• Transportation technical management (TSM, page under construction)
• Transportation technical support (TSM, page under construction)
• Trowel occupations 
• Tunnelling operations 

W

• Wall and floor tiling 
• Waterproof membrane roofing systems 
• Winter services
• Wood machining (construction/sawmilling extrusion)
• Wood occupations 
• Wood preserving – industrial pre-treatment