FaSQUAL - Trusted Security Vetting
FaSQUAL is a BSIA-led vetting and qualification scheme for the UK professional security sector, created to centralise and modernise how security personnel are screened and how their qualifications are verified. Created for both businesses and personnel, the platform provides a secure, industry-trusted record where vetting checks and qualifications are stored and can be reused with the individual's consent, instead of being repeated from scratch every time someone changes role, employer, or contract.
How can FaSQUAL help with vetting processes?
Traditional security vetting is slow, repetitive, and expensive, with operatives often re-screened multiple times for the same evidence. FaSQUAL reduces duplication of checks, onboarding time, and overall screening costs - all whille maintaining compliance and auditability. FaSQUAL is for employers and integrators, contractors and operatives, and recruiters and vetting partners.
FaSQUAL is a BSIA scheme that enables fast, secure, and reusable verification of security vetting and qualifications across the UK security industry.
Why does FaSQUAL exist?
BS 7858 is repetitive
Security personnel are repeatedly undergoing full BS 7858 screening every time they change role, contract, or employer. This causes unnecessary cost, delay, and frustration for employers and personnel alike.
FaSQUAL changes this - designed as a reusable, consent-based record, so verified screening evidence does not have to be created from scratch each time.
To create a centralised source of truth
FaSQUAL is a centralised, secure repository for ID checks, right-to-work, vetting evidence, and qualifications, stored in an ISO 27001-certified system.
Employers can check credentials quickly whilst maintaining audit integrity and GDPR compliance, and security personnel have a singular database where they can consent to having their records checked.
Vetting is expensive and time-consuming
Nationwide, vetting costs the sector £30 million+ annually, let alone how much time onboarding and screening currently take for businesses.
FaSQUAL is designed to help security businesses reuse verified elements where appropriate, which reduces onboarding time and admin burden, all whilst keeping employer accountablity under BS 7858 intact.
Professionalism is important to the BSIA
The BSIA continues to commit to its mission of raising best practice across the industry, and FaSQUAL continues that promise.
The scheme is a not-for-profit, industry-led initiative, removing commercial bias and setting a consistent, standards-aligned approach to vetting and qualification verification across the sector.
Protecting the data of workforce mobility
One of FaSQUAL's core principles is that records follow the individual, not the employer. We strive hard to ensure that personnel data remains secure and unshared unless consent has been given.
Operatives control access to their data via explicit, single-use codes, improving mobility without exposing data or weakening compliance controls.
