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12 Health and Safety Training
– Site Safety Plus (SSP)

Site Safety Plus (SSP) provides the construction industry with a suite of courses for health and safety awareness
and career development to help maintain a safe workforce.
These courses are designed to give everyone from operative to senior manager the skills they need to progress
through the industry. From a one-day Health and Safety Awareness (HSA) course, which also supports those

requiring the knowledge to obtain their CSCS Labourer Card, to the five-day Site Management Safety Training
Scheme (SMSTS).
The following training will assist employers in meeting the requirements of the Build UK Training Standard
Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) Site Safety Plus (Course via CITB)
This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and
safety strategic role in the built environment with the aim of recognising directors’ duties of care and the implications of
non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
OVERVIEW ENTRY REQUIREMENTS that course content and the end
The course will provide a summary of how This course has been developed of course assessment will require
to promote a positive organisational culture for directors and senior delegates to consider these
for health and safety. Workshop exercises managers active in a health legislations in context with a
throughout the day will give delegates the and safety strategic role in director’s role and responsibility:
opportunity to discuss their thoughts about the built environment from • Health and Safety at Work etc.
health and safety and their responsibilities any organisational size in Act 1974
in an open forum. construction, civil engineering • Employers’ Liability
The course will provide a summary of how or allied trades, and therefore (Compulsory Insurance)
to promote a positive organisational culture this should be considered before Act 1969
for health and safety. Group exercises enrolling delegates on to this
throughout the day will give delegates the course. • Construction
opportunity to discuss their thoughts about Examples of relevant roles (not (Design and Management)
health and safety and their responsibilities exhaustive) are: Regulations (CDM) 2015
in an open forum. • Financial/Operations director • Management of Health and
The course aims to help directors to: • Senior quantity surveyor (QS) Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• recognise the moral, economic and legal • Private QS 2) And Completion of the
costs/implications of decisions made pre-course eLearning.
in the boardroom that may make their • Principal designer Successful completion of this
business liable • Senior/principal engineer component generates a digital

• understand the significance of strategic • Company secretary certificate, a copy of which
management of risks must be sent to the Approved
• appreciate the range of consequences • Contracts manager Training Organisation (ATO)
from failing to manage health and safety • Senior project manager at least 24 hours before the
effectively • Non-executive director commencement of the main
• understand the importance of competent course and may be subject to

duty holders, and the significance of PREREQUISITES audit. The ATO must ensure

their cooperation, communication and Delegates must be able to copies of certificates are
coordination of health and safety on demonstrate the following: retained for audit purposes and
projects that the course results form is
• recognise the need to appoint competent 1) Either previously completed a updated accordingly.
health and safety assistance, and the CITB Director’s Role for Health
limitations of such an appointment, and and Safety course CERTIFICATION
• identify the basic tools to introduce a or Certification for this course is valid

proactive health and safety culture into working knowledge of the for 5 years. To remain certified in

an organisation, and the benefits of this following health and safety this area, you will need to retake
approach. legislation with the anticipation the course before the expiry date.
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