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SMSTS Training (CITB) - Site Management Training

This course is designed for site managers, agents and persons who are, or are about to be, responsible for planning, organising, monitoring, controlling and administering groups of staff and workforce. 

The course covers all relevant legislation and other aspects which affect 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 among the workforce.

The course aims to help site managers, agents and supervisors to: 
• manage health and safety on site in accordance with current legal provisions, and within the context of their management or supervisory role.
• develop an understanding of responsibilities and accountability for site health, safety and welfare, and 
• recognise 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 all health, safety, welfare and environmental legislation which affects them during their daily work.
• implement new guidance and industry best practice.
• state their duties and responsibilities with regards to health, safety, welfare and the environment.

When studying the SMSTS course you will be taught how to work and manage following the
regulations stipulated by the Health and Safety at Work Act. Some of the areas which are covered during the five-day training course include: 

• CDM
• Risk Assessments
• Method Statements
• Scaffolding
• Excavations
• Scaffolding
• RIDDOR
• Confined Spaces
• Site Set Up

You will be required to attend all five days of the course in order to be awarded the qualification. During 5-day SMSTS training delegates will need to show understanding of the main elements and pass the core exercises. At the end of the training, you will be required to sit a final examination, valid for 5 Years. 

Successful participants will be awarded a CITB SMSTS certificate