Choose the Site Management Safety Training Scheme

Choose the Site Management Safety Training Scheme
Many site managers who work within the construction industry choose to undertake the CITB Site Management Safety Training Scheme in order to help them increase their knowledge, awareness and understanding of the legal, social and moral responsibilities in respect of health, safety and welfare.

Why Choose the Site Management Safety Training Scheme?
The CITB is the Construction Industry Training Board and Sector Skills Council and its role is to encourage the training of those working in, or intending to work in, the construction industry in the UK. The Site Management Safety Training Scheme is just one of CITB’s courses and is designed to equip construction site managers, site agents, quantity surveyors and construction and project directors with the necessary knowledge needed to go about their jobs successfully.

Construction is a dangerous industry and many people die each year as a result of poor health and safety knowledge – there’s no getting away from that, and so safety is therefore an essential part of site management training in this field. The course will provide managers with the knowledge and ability to measure health and safety performance on site, whilst ensuring that safe systems and safe ways of working are employed on site.

What Does the Course Include?
The Site Management Safety Training Scheme incorporates a number of parts such as The Health and Safety at Work Act and other significant regulations relevant to the construction industry; site set up, CDM and risk assessments; and information regarding scaffolding, working at height, electricity etc.

Are there any Available Grants?
CITB levy payers are able to apply for training grants for the Site Management Safety Training Scheme. The CITB assist the construction industry to train their personnel through training grants funded by the levy system (employers make regular, financial contributions to assist with the funding of the training needs of a collective workforce).

Finding a Site Management Safety Training Scheme near Me
If you work, or are intending to work, on a construction site and you feel you could benefit from the Site Management Safety Training Scheme then you will certainly not struggle to find a course near you. There are many course providers all over the country offering the scheme and a simple search on one of the major online search engines can enable you to find a location and time perfect for you to take the course. It is compulsory that you attend every session for the course and you will be assessed throughout, in the form of assignments and then through a multiple choice assessment at the end of the course. If you are successful then you will obtain a CITB Site Management Safety Training Scheme certificate.

This certificate is valid for five years after which it will be necessary to attend an SMSTS refresher course. The refresher course is for those people who have previous undertaken and passed the five day course and this training course lasts two days. These courses are designed to bring health and safety knowledge up to date and include an overview on any legislative changes and developments.