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SMSTS Training (CITB) - Site Management Training
Introduction
The CITB Construction Skills Site Safety Plus scheme is a health and site safety training programmewith courses addressing the needs of site managers, site supervisors, the site work force andsubcontractors. Whilst this category includes most Site Safety Plus courses, there is a now a newdedicated section page with more CITB courses.
Site management training and safe site supervision is critical to site safety and equally important is thelevel of safety awareness of the entire workforce on a construction site. Although this group of coursesis often referred to generically simply as SMSTS Training, there are a number of Site Safety Plustraining courses designed to provide the building, civil engineering and allied industries with a range ofcourses for individuals seeking to develop their skill sets. These SMSTS safety training courses are runthrough a network of CITB accredited Training Providers and provide comprehensive site managementtraining that ensures all successful delegates are completely legal within their job roles onsite.
The CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) is the body which administers courses within thesector and training grants for the Site Safety Plus training courses are available to CITB levy payers.
Content
The SMSTS training course covers the Health & Safety at Work Act and the regulations relevant to theConstruction Industry (and other workplaces), including:
- Site Set Up
- CDM Regulations
- Risk Assessment
- Method Statements
- Scaffolding Awareness
- Monitoring Health & Safety
- Electricity On Site
- Excavations
- Demolition
- Confined Spaces
- Fire Prevention
- Management Of Contractors
Aim
To help site managers to:
- manage health and safety on site in accordance with current legal provisions, and within the contextof their management
- develop an understanding of responsibility and accountability for site health, safety and welfare
- recognise that a safe site is efficient, economical and productive
At the end of the period of training, delegates will be aware of, and able to implement or state:
- all health, safety, welfare and environmental legislation which affects them during their daily - work
- new guidance and industry best practice
- their duties and responsibilities with regards to health, safety, welfare and the environment.
Participants
This course is designed for construction site managers, agents, and project directors. In addition, anyother construction personnel who are, or are about to be, responsible for planning, organising,monitoring, controlling and administering groups of staff and workforce are recommended to attend.
_POSSESSION OF THE SMSTS QUALIFICATION IS ONE OF THE COMPETENCYREQUIREMENTS FOR SITE MANAGERS IN THE APPROVED CODE OF PRACTICE TO THECONSTRUCTION (DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS 2007. EVIDENCE OF TRAININGIS OFTEN REQUIRED IN TENDER APPLICATIONS AND PRE-QUALIFICATION HEALTH & SAFETYQUESTIONNAIRES._
Certification
At the end of the CITB SMSTS course, each individual also has to pass a short test and present asuitable health and safety solution to a site activity which qualifies them for the Construction SiteManagers Safety Certificate.
This certificate expires every five years. After this period certificate holders are required to sit theSMSTS two day refresher course to renew their qualification for a further five years
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