Health and Safety Awareness

Module 1 Legal and management

• Legal & general responsibilities
• Accident reporting & recording

Module 2 Health and welfare

• Health & Welfare
• First aid and responsibilities
• Personal protective equipment
• Asbestos
• Respiratory hazards
• noise & vibrations
• Hazardous substances
  Manual handling

Module 3 General safety

• Safety Signs
• Fire prevention & control
• Electrical safety, work equipment & hand-held tools
• Mobile plant vehicles
• Lifting operations & equipment

Module 4 High Risk activities

• Working at height
• Excavations
• Confined spaces

Module 5 Environment

• Environmental awareness
• Pollution
• Waste materials
• Nuisance

The CITB Health and Safety Awareness course is for those who have entered, or are about to enter, the construction and civil engineering industry as a member of the workplace, to help them understand the potential hazards that they face at work on site, and the protocols to keep themselves safe whilst undertaking their duties.

It provides a practical summary of health and safety, welfare and environmental issues identifying individual responsibilities for looking after themselves and others, what the employer’s duties are and what should be done if they think anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk.

Additional Attendee Information

• Please inform us if you have any serious health issues, physical problems or are taking any medication which may create difficulties in undertaking elements of this training course
• For online courses, the content will be remotely delivered by a tutor in a virtual online classroom and you must have access to a suitable PC, laptop or tablet with a robust high-speed internet connection sufficient to cope with online delivery.
• You will also need a suitably sized quiet room where they can carry out the course without interruptions
• Identification will be checked prior to starting the course and the examination
• The examination will be carried out using an online examination tool (Classmarker or Microsoft Forms) and will be subject to online video invigilation.
• Delegates who do not complete the full tuition time will not be issued with a certificate and will be charged in full
• Failure to meet any of these site requirements will result in the course being cancelled and charged in full
• All prices shown are subject to VAT
• The training grant aid is provided in accordance with the current CITB grants scheme
• Employers are able to claim grants if they have sent a Levy Return to CITB by 30th November each year (where applicable).
• You will complete an induction prior to starting the course

TRAINING & ASSESSMENT METHODS

A high proportion of discussions, best practice sharing, group exercises and case studies will be supplemented with classroom based tutorial.

Delegates will be continuously assessed during the course in preparation for the final examination.

The final examination paper is mandatory and consists of 25 questions, selected by CITB, covering all aspects of the course and has a pass mark of 83%.

CERTIFICATION

Delegates successfully completing the course will receive a CITB Health & Safety Awareness certificate valid for five years.

Please note, CITB no longer produce physical certificates, all certificates are produced digitally and sent to DSG Academy within 28 working days of the end of the course, and will then be sent to the delegate

CSCS CARD

This course qualifies all delegates for the CSCS Labourers Green card.

DSG Academy is an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) with CITB, allowing employers to claim grants for completing training on our registered courses.

The CITB levy and grants scheme has been introduced to ensure the UK construction industry has the skilled workforce that it needs; providing grants for employers to train their workers. This helps to maintain health & safety standards on construction sites, keeping the right skills available for the industry to grow.

In turn this will allow projects to be completed on time and within budget, in a safe and sustainable manner.