NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Association)

Name: NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Association)
Address: 4th Floor, London, EC4V 6AP
Telephone: 020 7822 7400

020 7822 7400

The NASC is the national trade body for access and scaffolding in the UK, established in 1945 with the aim of promoting high standards of safety within the industry.

Nearly 80 years later, raising and maintaining safety standards remains at the heart of the NASC’s objectives – driving every activity it undertakes.

This includes the production of a wide range of industry-recognised safety and technical guidance, created to support the needs of scaffolding contractors, their operatives and clients, and accepted as the industry standard by HSE, Build UK, CITB and principal contractors alike.

The same approach is extended to new membership applications, with a stringent set of criteria in place to ensure that the highest working practices are maintained.

We currently have 300+ members, consisting of companies of all sizes, ranging from small contractors with under 10 operatives to firms operating nationwide with thousands of employees on the books.

Cumulatively, our members account for the vast majority of the UK’s scaffolding spend – with a total annual turnover in excess of £2 billion.

NASC members are strictly audited every year to ensure compliance with NASC Criteria, Code of Conduct and the Code of Practice for scaffolding products.

These high standards are recognised and valued by construction industry leaders, who continue to stipulate ‘NASC only’ companies for access and scaffolding.

Safety First

Each year the NASC publishes a Health and Safety Report that documents and analyses accident and injury statistics for its full contracting members – representing more than 16,000 scaffolding operatives across the UK – in the previous calendar year.

The 2019 report, covering January to December 2018, shows the number of accidents and injuries recorded by NASC members remained incredibly low.

Just 113 on site accidents and injuries were recorded during 2018 – equating to one incident for every 150 operatives.

This number means that more than 99% of all NASC member operatives went through 2018 accident and injury-free. There were also no operative fatalities, for the sixth consecutive year.

Why all this matters to you

NASC full contracting members are demonstrably safe, skilled, trained, insured and compliant. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be able to attain or retain NASC membership.

This gives the companies and organisations that employ their services a number of assurances. They can be sure they’re taking on contractors that are professional, reliable, experienced and used to delivering high-quality scaffolding solutions and working with other trades on site without accident or injury.

This all adds up to peace of mind that the NASC contractor you employ is capable, competent and can carry out the job in hand.

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