For employers
Main contractors check cards at the gate and clients score competence at tender. We qualify your workforce without taking it off the job - one-day Green Card group days at your venue, NVQs from skilled trades to senior management assessed from the work your people already do, and invigilated testing brought to you, anywhere in the UK.
HPL Centre is a GQA Qualifications Approved Centre (00467) and CITB Approved Internet Test Centre. Employers verify every card with the CSCS Smart Check app - cards are issued by the scheme following successful completion and approval.
Prices exclude VAT. The grant is claimed back by eligible CITB levy-registered employers who are up to date with Levy Returns, paid after the qualification is achieved - not a discount off the invoice. We'll confirm your eligibility before you commit.
What we deliver
Plenty of providers will train at your premises. Very few can bring the approved test too. One day at your site, office or training room: course, invigilated GQA Health & Safety test under exam conditions, and card applications administered for the whole group.
From 17 Level 2 trades through Level 3 Advanced Craft and supervision to Level 6/7 management - assessed from the work your people already do, on your sites. Typical completion 4–8 weeks, working with their assessor and work-based recorder.
GQA Health & Safety testing (an approved equivalent to the CITB HS&E test) arranged with your programme or at your facility under invigilated conditions; CITB HS&E testing at our Queensbury centre, weekdays and weekends. Card applications administered by us.
International contractors
An international contractor landing a UK package faces a wall most domestic firms never see: unfamiliar card schemes, qualification rules that don't map to home-country ones, and a main contractor who won't let anyone through the gate without them. We do something few centres can - we take that wall down. UK-recognised NVQs, Health & Safety testing and CSCS card applications, delivered as one programme, at your site or ours, sequenced so your people are carded when your contract needs them on the tools.
Our team speak English, Romanian, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese - and we know first-hand what it means to arrive in a new country with a contract to deliver. German, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Brazilian, Spanish, Austrian and Belgian subcontractor teams have qualified, tested and carded with us, guided through the paperwork, the site culture and everything that's different about building in Britain.
Among our international clients
B&B Italia · Focchi · Josef Gartner · Permasteelisa
On sites across the UK
From skyscrapers and high-spec commercial builds to new-build housing and private villas - from groundworkers in Edinburgh to finishing trades in Westminster - the people we train, assess and card are on projects across the whole spectrum of UK construction, and the craftsmanship we encounter never stops fascinating us.
We've assessed and tested candidates working on major infrastructure schemes such as HS2 and Hinkley Point C, on large-scale urban regeneration programmes, and on commercial and new-build developments delivered by the UK's biggest names.
Our candidates' sites have included projects by
Mace · Balfour Beatty · VINCI Construction · Morgan Sindall Group · Kier Group
Sites run by these contractors check every card at the gate. Ours pass - that's the point.
Building Safety Act 2022
The Building Safety Act 2022 defines competence as the right Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours (SKEB) - and main contractors and clients increasingly ask for the evidence at tender stage, then check it at the gate with Smart Check. A qualified, carded workforce is no longer a nice-to-have; it scores.
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We review your workforce's cards and qualifications against the roles they actually perform - and tell you plainly where the gaps are, before a client finds them.
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Green Cards for new labourers, Blue for your skilled trades, Gold for the people running gangs, Black for your managers - sequenced around your programme, not against it.
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Enrolment to card, administered and tracked in one place, with reporting you can hand to a client or auditor. One centre, one point of contact.
Five steps
Tell us about your workforce, your sites and what your clients are asking for.
We map cards and qualifications against roles, and check your CITB grant eligibility.
Tailored and all-inclusive for your group - training, testing, card administration.
At your venue or ours, around your programme - invigilated, approved, evidenced.
WhatsApp updates per candidate, employer reporting per cohort, until every card lands.
For employers
Tell us about your team and we'll come back within one working day with a tailored, all-inclusive quotation - and an honest read on your grant eligibility.
Prefer to talk it through first?
Call 020 3488 5582, or message us on WhatsApp - our team answers in English, Romanian, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. All training and testing is delivered in English.
Working with businesses that refer work to us? We partner with accountants, recruiters and construction advisers - get in touch about business partnerships.
For employers
Why choose HPL
No classrooms to sit in, no evenings lost, nobody left chasing paperwork - a qualification route designed for people who are already on the tools.
Assessed from the work you already do - on your site or remotely, decided with you at your NVQ induction online meeting.
GQA Qualifications Approved Centre (00467) and CITB Approved Internet Test Centre - qualification, Health & Safety testing and card application under one roof.
Evidence gathering, observations and professional discussions - with fast feedback at every step, so you always know where you stand.
You keep earning while you qualify - the pace is set by how quickly your evidence comes together, working with your assessor.
Monthly visits to Scotland, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge and Northamptonshire - and invigilated testing brought to employers' venues.
We administer your card application and update you on WhatsApp until it reaches you. Weekend sessions available.
We deliver for employers of every size - a six-person squad or a full workforce. And we do something few centres can: we work with international companies with contracts in the UK, whose teams arrive needing UK-recognised qualifications, Health & Safety testing and CSCS cards to get on site. We bring the whole package to your venue, anywhere in the UK - one-day Green Card group days (course, invigilated test and card applications in a single day), NVQ workforce programmes from Level 2 to 7, and testing under exam conditions at your facility. Our team speak English, Romanian, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese - and we know first-hand what it means to arrive in a new country with a contract to deliver. German, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Brazilian, Spanish, Austrian and Belgian subcontractor teams have qualified, tested and carded with us - guided through the paperwork, the site culture and everything that's different about building in Britain.
Among our international clients: B&B Italia · Focchi · Josef Gartner · Permasteelisa
Request a workforce quoteTell us what your clients are asking for, and we'll tell you exactly how to get there - with one quotation and one point of contact.