The Industry Competence Committee (ICC) has today published setting expectations on competence management guidance on HSE’s citizen space. Industry Consultation on this guidance is open for response from 25th September to 6th November 2025. The ICC, as a statutory committee under the Building Safety Regulator, is committed to setting expectations for industry by sharing clear principles on how organisations could manage the competence of those working for them.

This guidance builds on feedback received from industry consultation in May 2025. It is intended to give ICC’s broad expectations for how organisations should manage competence, by setting out what the common elements and principles are for all organisations.

The ICC wants to ensure that these principles:

Will assist industry in development of competence management processes Can be put into practice by industry

Feedback is being sought on these points. Following the industry consultation period, ICC will build on this guidance by developing case studies and examples, to assist industry at a more practical level.

APS is supportive of the work of the ICC and we will be collating member feedback to that end. Any feedback on the document can be sent to Sofie.Hooper@APS.ORG.UK. The work of the ICC will be complemented by Industry guidance which will follow for consultation shortly. If members want to respond to the ICC direct, the document and link to respond can be accessed and shared using this link