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SMSTS Training (CITB) - Site Management Training

This CITB Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) course is for you if you’re considering, or already have, responsibilities for planning, organising, monitoring, controlling and administering groups of staff e.g. site manager.

It covers all relevant legislation affecting safe working in the building, construction and civil engineering industries. It highlights the need for risk assessment in the workplace, the implementation of the necessary control measures and adequate communication to sustain a health and safety culture within the workforce.

The SMSTS course is endorsed by Build UK as the standard training for all construction managers.

Learning outcomes
 

- The Health and Safety at Work Act
- Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations
- Risk assessments/method statements
- Recent changes in accepted working practices
- Behavioural safety
- Management of occupational health
- Electricity
- Excavations
- Working at height
- Scaffolding
- Demolition
- Confined spaces

 
Assessment
 

Continuous assessment and multiple-choice test.

The exam paper is compulsory and consists of 25 questions, selected by CITB, covering all aspects of the course. The exam pass mark is 80% (28 out of 35). The paper consists of 20 multiple choice questions and five short written questions. There are five safety critical questions in each exam paper. The learner must get all five of these questions correct in order to pass the exam.