SSSTS (CITB) - Supervisor Site Safety Training Scheme

Who Should Attend?

This course is for first line managers and those who have or are about to acquire supervisory responsibilities. It provides an introduction to health, safety, welfare and environmental issues for those requiring an understanding of their legal responsibilities relevant to their work activities. It will provide a sound knowledge base to enable them to give valuable assistance in safely managing a construction site.

Course Content

To ensure that all those given supervisory responsibilities understand:

• Why they are carrying out their identified duties
• What is expected of them
• To ensure that they contribute to the safety of the workplace
• Understand the problems of the industry
• Have an understanding of how health and safety law is structured
• Identify how their supervisory role fits in with the manager in controlling the site safely
• Carryout risk assessments and understand the need for method statements
• Carryout site inductions, tool box talks and method statement briefings
• Understand what is meant by proactive and reactive monitoring and appreciate their need
• Successfully developing and presenting a tool box talk
• Participation in group discussions

Multiple choice examination at the end of the course