SSSTS (CITB) - Supervisor Site Safety Training Scheme

CITB Accredited – This course is aimed at team leaders, foremen, gangers, first line managers and supervisors with supervisory responsibilities and a need to understand their legal duties.

This Course Covers:

• An introduction into health and safety on site, as well as welfare and environmental issues that those in a supervisory role must be aware of.
• This also includes the legal responsibilities that are relevant to supervisors whilst safely managing a construction site.
• What is expected of site supervisors, including occupational health issues that arise within the construction sector.
• An understanding of how health and safety law is structured, and how the role of a supervisor links in with the role of a site manager when controlling site safety.
• Risk assessments – how to carry these out and why method statements are a legal requirement.
• Fire prevention and control, control of hazardous substances, CDM (Construction Design Management) Regulations, Working at Height, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), manual handling, accidents and first aid.
• How to carry out site inductions, toolbox talks and method statement briefings.
• Understanding the need for proactive and reactive monitoring.

The SSSTS test which all delegates must pass to complete the course.