Health and Safety Awareness (CITB) – Site Safety Plus Training – Online Classroom

 

This one-day Health and Safety Awareness course aims to ensure that the delegate understands:

 

- Why they are carrying out their identified duties

- What is expected of them

To ensure that they contribute to the safety of the workplace

 

 

The Health and Safety Awareness Site Safety Plus (CITB) training course content includes: 

 

- General responsibilities 

- Accident prevention and reporting

- Health and welfare

- Manual handling

- Work at height

- PPE

- Emergency procedures and first aid

- Fire prevention and control

- Hazardous substances

- Electrical safety

- Hand-held equipment and tools

- Noise and vibration

- Site safety transport

- Excavations and confined spaces 

 

At the end of the Health and Safety Awareness Site Safety Plus training 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

 

The course requires 7 hours of tuition including an exam. Delegates are required to complete the full course to be eligible for certification.

- Delegates are required to show original photographic identification via video link prior to the commencement of the course, the delegate must be notified of this requirement prior to attendance.
- Delegates who do not complete the full tuition time, and pass the end of course examination will not be issued with a certificate.

Additional Information:

- All courses will be delivered in English in accordance with scheme rules.
- Delegates must, therefore, be competent in English at the level required to do their job before their course commences.
- Interpreters and translators are not permitted for any part of the course qualification or examination.

Assessment

The examination paper is compulsory and consists of 25 questions, selected by CITB, covering all aspects of the course.

- The examination will be carried out using an online examination tool (Classmarker or Microsoft Forms) and will be subject to online video invigilation.
- Identification must be checked prior to the examination
- During the examination, the trainer may invigilate a maximum of 5 delegates. If a course is run with more than 5 delegates, 2 examination sessions will be conducted
- Each delegate must show the invigilator that they are alone in the room and must be visible via the video at all times
- The examination pass mark is 80% (20 out of 25).
- The paper consists of 25 multiple choice. There are three safety critical questions in each exam paper. The delegate must answer all three of these questions correctly to pass the exam.
- The multiple-choice questions are worth 1 point each.

We suggest you share this information with the delegates prior to attending the course.

Examination re-sits

There is an option for an examination to be re-taken if the delegate fails on the first attempt. When this is taken is subject to the discretion of the training provider. 

- Where a delegate has achieved between 72%–76% (18 or 19 out of 25) in the examination or has achieved the 80% pass rate but failed the safety critical questions, the delegate may re-sit the examination. This can either be on the same day or by resitting the exam by attending another course within a 90-day period (the delegate is not obliged to re-sit the day’s course)
- When a delegate scores 68% or less (17 or less correct answers out of 25) in the examination, the delegate must attend the full HSA course again before they can re-sit the examination.

Venue

Your/Delegates venue must meet the requirements of CITB, as listed below:

- A suitably sized, clean and quiet room without interruptions.
- A clock must be visible at all times.
- Access to a computer or laptop with a reliable high speed internet connection.

Failure to meet any of these site requirements will result in the course being cancelled and charged in full