From Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, 2 December 2015
New online Record of Work and Certificate of Work forms now available for LBPs
A recent upgrade on the LBP portal website provides users with the opportunity to complete Record of Work (RoW) and Certificate of Work (CoW) online.
The online portal will pre-populate much of the required information from the LBP database. This will reduce the need to put the same information on every RoW or CoW.
As part of the roll-out of the new LBP Skills Maintenance system the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment recently introduced, LBPs are now able to complete Record of Work (RoW) and Certificate of Work (CoW) forms online. This online enhancement is only available to active LBPs who hold one or more licence classes. The new functionality was introduced on 2 November 2015.
The online RoW and CoW forms are a direct reproduction of the commonly used paper based prescribed forms, however, there are a number of advantages for LBPs completing the forms online such as:
• The online forms can save practitioners time by re-populating information from the LBP database, such as the practitioner’s name, LBP number, licence class(es), and contact information. Information such as the LBP BP number are protected and cannot be modified.
• The online forms allow practitioners to add only the restricted building work (RBW) sections applicable to the specific project they have worked on, thus eliminating references to RBW that is not relevant to the work they have completed.
• Increased accuracy and clarity of the information provided as all information is keyed in and not hand written (except for the entry of a signature).
• The system only allows practitioners the option of filling out a form which is relevant to the licence class(es) they hold (i.e. LBPs not licenced in design will not have the option of completing a CoW form online).
The information contained in the forms will not be stored in the LBP system unless an LBP wants to ‘retain’ some of the completed forms and use them for their skills maintenance requirements.
Initial interest in the new functionality has been solid and hundreds of LBPs have already used the recently released RoW and CoW forms. It is envisaged BCAs around the country will start seeing these forms enter their system as an alternative to the paper based carbon copy triplicate forms commonly used.