Custodial Checking Skills Certificate
Next Intake: (3 days) 3 June, 10 June, 17 June 2026
The Custodial Checking Skills Certificate is an intermediate pathway to the full Built Environment Custodian Skills Certificate. It imparts value-add multi-tasking hard skills to ‘sight and flag’ building defects & health and safety hazards for early intervention, thereby contributing to cost effective repairs and a safer built environment.
Cost: After funding (conditions apply)
SGD 297.00
Course Description
The Building Custodian Job Re-design programme was first started in 2007 to extend the skills of Building Custodial Workers. The objectives of the programme were to create a value-add productive custodial worker equipped with multi-skills and allow an ageing custodial workforce to continue work in a less physically demanding re-designed job.
The job re-design approach adopted was to:
- Combine an existing main custodial task (e.g. cleaning) with the occasional minor building repairs and replacement tasks/custodial maintenance work through job scheduling
- Combine an existing main task with the parallel task of sighting and flagging of building defects and, health and safety hazards (termed Custodial Checking) for early intervention enabling more cost effective repairs. (It is envisaged that older Custodial workers could eventually be eased into this physically less demanding job as they age).
The training is structured in two pathways with independent certifications (Custodial Checking / Custodial Maintenance) to allow workers to start with any pathway and continue their skills upgrading to the next pathway and be rewarded with an overarching certification of a Built Environment Custodian.
The Custodial Checking Skills Certificate is an intermediate pathway to the full Built Environment Custodian Skills Certificate. It imparts value-add multi-tasking hard skills to ‘sight and flag’ building defects & health and safety hazards for early intervention, thereby contributing to cost effective repairs and a safer built environment.
| Custodial Checking
Part 1: Introduction to Custodial Maintenance Services
Part 2: WSH in Custodial Maintenance Services
Part 3: Buildings & Building Defects
Part 4: Custodial Checking & Reporting
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Please click here for a list of course lecturers.
20 hours
Mode of Delivery
The mode of delivery will comprise face to face lectures in RECA’s training centre in the Devan Nair Institute of Employment and Employability and practicum within and in the surrounds of the centre.
Assessment
Assessment will be in the form of a multiple-choice examination of one-hour duration at the end of the course.
Certification
The RECA Custodial Checking Skills Certificate will be issued when a learner passes the assessment.
The entry requirements are:
- Physically fit and not colour blind
- English literacy and numeracy up to at least Primary 4 level or ESS Workplace Literacy & Numeracy (WPLN) Level 3
- Able to work independently and exercise self-checks of completed tasks.
The next intake of the Custodial Checking Skills Certificate have been scheduled as follows: 3 Jun – 17 Jun 2026.
Course Fees: $990
SSG Funding Overview
Absentee Payroll Support of up to $4.50 per training hour is also available, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year.
Self-sponsored learners who wish to enrol on the course can also utilise their Opening Skills Future Credit (SFC) to offset the course fee amount after SSG funding. An SFC claim can be made at:
https://www.myskillsfuture.gov.sg/content/portal/en/career-resources/career-resources/how-to-guides/claim-sfc.html
Other Support
Additional NTUC-UTAP Funding
Self-sponsored learners who are NTUC members can enjoy 50% unfunded* course fee support for up to $250 each year when they successfully complete the course. NTUC members aged 40 and above will get increased funding support from $250 to $500. To find out more about NTUC-UTAP or to make a claim, please click on the link below:
https://www.ntuc.org.sg/uportal/programmes/union-training-assistance-programme
Provision for Lifelong Learning and Skills Upgrading to a Built Environment Custodian and beyond on completion of the Custodial Checking Skills Certificate is in place as shown in the RECA Property / Facilities Management Lifelong Learning Roadmap found at: https://reca.edu.sg/courses/overview-and-lifelong-learning/
Please contact Ken Chew or Gary Law at. 6563 4176 or e-mail: enquiry@reca.edu.sg for other information you may require.
