I am a Technical Standards Consultee

 

Welcome to the team! Please see below a list of training resources to help you in your role as a Technical Standards Committee consultee of Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and/or Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCHW) documents.

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Training video

Please review this training video on the Standards Governance Process for consultees before commencing your role. This covers:

  • An overview of the new Standards Governance Process
  • The categories of change we use for document updates (A/B/C/D) and relevant governance steps
  • Enhanced deliverables to accompany the process e.g. impact assessment report
  • How this consultation process differs from the former Technical Project Board (TPB) set up
  • How to access the Collaborative Authoring and Review System (CARS) to review and make comments on documents
  • A summary of the updates being made to the MCHW
  • Key responsibilities

It is also available as a PDF output to look back on the slides.

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Manual for Development of Documents

Roles and responsibilities

The role and responsibilities of a Technical Consultee can be viewed in MDD part 1 Governance of document development. Please see in particular:

  • Section 4 Key roles and responsibilities (summary of your role)
  • Sections 13 Technical Standards Committee consultation.
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Use of CARS

As part of your consultee role you will have been given access to our CARS software. If you need a reminder of your log-in please visit the CARS homepage and press the forgotten password button.

You will not have any documents to review until they are assigned to you by the Technical Standards Committee chair. The chair will send you an email with the link for the review and give you notice of when the consultation is and how long you have to review and add comments.

If you want to see a list of TSC committees and the details of the TSC chairs, please click here.

The training video above has a specific section on how to access the document and make comments.

Please also see the ‘Using CARS‘ menu for a range of help articles tailored by topic. If you want to search for a particular keyword you can do so in the search box on the main help page.

If you have any further queries, please feel free to email the support team (The Technical Standards Group in SES).

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