Cskills Awards Site Safety Plus Health and Safety Awareness Course

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1 Cskills Awards Site Safety Plus Health and Safety Awareness Course Contents Page 1. Introduction 2 2. Aims and objectives 2 3. Assessment 2 4. Delegate numbers 2 5. Course progression 2 6. Course publication 3 7. Notes to training providers 3 8. Suggested timetable 4 9. End-of-course examination rules for the health and safety awareness course 6 Appendix 1 page 1 of 6

2 1. Introduction This course is for those who have entered, or are about to enter, the construction and civil engineering industry as a member of the workforce, to help them understand the potential hazards that they face at work on site. 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. This course is also an alternative route to the QCF Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment for the CSCS Labourer Card. 2. Aims and objectives The course aims to ensure that individual responsibilities are understood: why they are carrying out their identified duties, and what is expected of them, and to ensure that they contribute to the safety of the workplace. At the end of the course delegates will be able to: understand the need to prevent accidents have an understanding of health and safety law identify how their role fits into the control and management of the site understand the need for risk assessments and method statements appreciate the need to perform safely and to stop and ask for advice if not sure feel obliged to report unsafe acts to prevent an accident. 3. Assessment The method of assessment will be by multiple-choice questions at the end of the course, as well as being expected to be interactive during the course. 4. Delegate Numbers The maximum number of delegates per course will be Course progression This course is an ideal introduction for obtaining a basic understanding of health and safety duties and responsibilities, and becoming aware of hazards and risks on site. Appendix 1 page 2 of 6

3 Upon successful completion of this course, a natural progression would be the Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) course. Existing site managers, agents, surveyors and persons holding positions of managerial control should attend the Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) course. 6. Course publication The course publication is the Safe Start safety handbook GE Notes to training providers: Not all sections of GE707 have been included in the suggested programme. Training providers may adjust the programme and add other material to meet delegate needs provided that the aims and objectives of the course are met. Copies of the proposed programme changes, if any, must be submitted prior to course delivery. If using the exam paper as the end test. The examination paper number will be notified when the course booking is accepted by Cskills Awards. Appendix 1 page 3 of 6

4 8. Suggested timetable Morning Subject heading GE707 Content Course registration and coffee Introductions and objectives General responsibilities Accident reporting and recording Tea/coffee break Health and welfare Dust and Fumes (Respiratory risks) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 6 Aims and objectives of the course, history of Cskills Awards Site Safety Plus, introduce GE707, purpose and CITB- ConstructionSkills health, safety and environment test (touch screen test) Health and safety law, communication and consultation, policy, organisation and arrangements, induction and training Risk assessments, method statements, toolbox talks and permits Site tidiness, permits, HSE s powers Nature of accidents, causes, prevention, cost Accident reporting, witness, illness Near-miss concept Overview of skin conditions, diseases, Weil s disease, drugs and alcohol problems, random testing, welfare facilities, personal responsibilities Overview of breathing diseases, hazards, prevention, controls and RPE Manual handling Chapter 9 Employer and employee duties The task, load, working environment, individual capability Working at height Personal protective equipment Lunch break Chapter 14 Chapter 5 Hierarchy of control, avoid, assess, existing place, temporary place, prevent and arrest falls, roofs, near water, ladders, tower scaffolds, hop-ups PPE duties, head, feet, body, ears, eyes, hands and arms, fall-arrest and life jackets Appendix 1 page 4 of 6

5 PROGRAMME Afternoon Subject heading GE707 Content Emergency procedures and first aid Fire prevention and control Hazardous substances Electrical safety and hand-held tools and equipment Chapter 3 Chapter 11 Chapter 8 Chapter 12 Evacuation, emergency routes, first aid and other assistance, discovering a casualty summoning help Elements, hot work permits, controls, alarms, fire fighting and extinguishers, escape routes What they are and how you can be harmed. Legal duties Other substances including asbestos, lead, HFLs, LPG, disposal Electrical supplies, battery-powered tools, extension cables, portable appliance testing (PAT), overhead and underground, petrol-driven power tools, grinders, cartridges, air operated and hand-held tools 1445 Tea/coffee break Noise and vibration Chapter 7 Noise causes, solution, levels, duties, control measures Vibration symptoms, implications, solutions Site transport safety Excavations and confined spaces Chapter 13 Chapter 15 Mobile plant, accident causes, traffic and people segregation Excavations, falling material, gases and fumes, buried services, contaminated ground Confined spaces lack of oxygen, gases, working safely in a confined space, rescue Examination Multiple-choice test (30 minutes) End of test Tutor to mark papers Delegates see below Safety signs and signals Course review and close Chapter 10 Sign and signal recognition (Optional quiz) Do you know your signs and signals? Course review sheets to be completed Appendix 1 page 5 of 6

6 13. End-of-course examination rules for the course Refer to Section 3 Registering courses and marking Delegates performance There are now two routes for the end of course exam, both having different assessment guidelines. From January 2015 the HS&E Operatives Test may be used as an alternative end test for this course, to the traditional examination paper. Exam Paper The examination paper consists of 25 multiple-choice questions selected by Cskills Awards. It forms the basis of assessment as to whether or not a delegate has successfully achieved a satisfactory level of health and safety awareness for a certificate of achievement to be issued. The examination lasts for 30 minutes and must be completed within this time. Delegates are permitted to use the GE707 Safe Start safety handbook publication for the last ten minutes of the examination period. The examination pass mark is 72%. Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) Operatives Test The HS&E Operatives Test consists of 50 multiple-choice questions* and lasts 45 minutes. It has been deemed as an acceptable assessment as to whether or not a delegate has successfully achieved a satisfactory level of health and safety awareness for a certificate of achievement to be issued. Delegates completing this test as the end test for the course will not have to do the test again for the purposes of the Labourer Card. *The 50 questions are made up of 12 behavioural case study questions and 38 knowledge category questions. We advise that all candidates watch the Setting Out film which covers the 10 principles on which all the questions in the behavioural section are based prior to taking their test. You will need to complete Course Notification forms as you do now for the course number. Course Assessment Reports are completed following course attendance, and once the test has been passed. If you are not an ITC and do not have the test score for each delegate you can get this information from the delegate themselves using the Score Report or you are able to check using the online card checker. The pass is to be entered on to the Course Assessment Report. All paperwork should be kept following the requirements laid out in the Scheme Rules, and will be checked at your next external quality advisor visit. Resit Option There is now an option to re-sit this course using either of the above options. If using the paper option the training provider must ensure that the same examination is not used twice. The delegate must re-sit the examination within 90 days of the last day previously attended. A charge may be made to the delegate; however, this fee is left entirely to the discretion of the training provider. Appendix 1 page 6 of 6