Course Content

The SSSTS training course will enable candidates to understand the problems of the industry, appreciate how health and safety law is structured, identify how their supervisory role fits into that of the manager in controlling site safety, carry out risk assessments and understand the need for method statements, carry out site inductions, toolbox talks and method statement briefings and understand what is meant by proactive and reactive monitoring and appreciate their need.

The main topics covered are:

• • The health and safety legal system
  • Construction accidents – types, numbers and immediate and underlying causes
  • Awareness of other regulations
  • Approved codes of practice and guidance notes
  • Work at height
  • Demolition noise and vibration
  • Occupational health
  • Fire awareness
  • Control of contractors
  • Electricity and confined spaces.