Over the past few years there has been a growing trend in the appearance of fraudulent training certificates in industry. People who are keen to get work in an industry that is perceived to be high paying are willingly taking a chance on manufactured documents.

For businesses, this, at the very least, adds to your operational costs in onboarding workers who soon prove to be unsuitable for the role for which they were employed. At worst, it poses a risk to your business in terms of safety and health objectives and could cause immeasurable damage to your company’s reputation.

This growing trend is largely due to advances in technology and the proliferation of online companies selling fake certificates (if you don’t believe it just Google it). The type of issues we are seeing include: