Message from the Chairman

Thank-you for taking the trouble to look at the NIRCA website, as Chairman I thought it only right to provide you with a statement of the intentions of NIRCA and some of the detail of its background.

NIRCA was formed by like minded contractors who identified the need for a trade organisation to represent the interests of those of us who work in the Insurance repair market. From a standing start in early 2006 we have put together a membership and there is a lot of work to be done in the future. The categories below indicate the framework for how that work will be implemented in the coming months and years ahead.

LEGISLATION:

Much of the burdening legislation to which we all have to adhere is both time consuming and expensive for some of the smaller contractors and company directors can feel isolated sometimes from the rest of the industry. NIRCA aims to help members comply with the legislative requirements as this is a common theme to all of us. This will cover the CIS regulations for contractors and the F.S.A legislative powers which now dominate our industry.

HEALTH & SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL:

NIRCA will aim to provide assistance to member companies and the industry at large in keeping up to date with current events. Indeed it is our intention to be able to provide for members training courses in this respect during the coming months. By pooling our resources we can provide information to ALL for a single cost that normally each company might have to bear alone.

TRAINING:

NIRCA will operate a training policy for all member company operatives. We will seek to link with the CITB on the training available to members and encourage the use of NVQ’s where appropriate and the CSCS cards for operatives. NIRCA has the intention of considering the issue of a NIRCA card to all trained operative. This will not only demonstrate their technical abilities (from the CSCS card route) but more importantly perhaps include the customer skills and training on the culture of working in the insurance market principally in the domestic environment. It is known , but not widely recognised that skilled operatives including multi task ones need additional support when working in some-ones home as opposed to an ordinary construction site.

WEBSITE:

The NIRCA website will become the library of all relevant information for our members and the industry at large, we will provide links and downloads for information on a real time basis.

WARRANTIES:

NIRCA are currently negotiating with insurers and a bond provider to introduce an insured warranty or bond that will give the home-owner the piece of mind of knowing that in the event a contractor fails financially or ceases to trade any outstanding liabilities in law on their works will be covered.

Robert Withers

Chairman

Join NIRCA

Shall be open to companies and organisations whose primary business lays in the insurance related repair market for all insured perils. Such companies may also work for local authorities on repair and maintenance works.

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