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Duration

1 Day

Maximum Delegates

8 – 16 Learners

CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety Course

Course Details:

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:

The course will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Group exercises throughout the day will allow delegates to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum.

The course aims to help directors to:

  • recognise the moral, economic and legal costs/implications of decisions made in the boardroom that may make their business liable
  • understand the significance of strategic management of risks
  • appreciate the range of consequences of failing to manage health and safety effectively
  • understand the importance of competent duty holders, and the significance of their cooperation, communication and coordination of health and safety on projects
  • recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance, and the limitations of such an appointment, and identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation, and the benefits of this approach.

Entry Requirements:

This course has been developed for directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment from any organisational size in construction, civil engineering or allied trades, and therefore this should be considered before enrolling delegates on this course.

Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive) are:

  • Financial/Operations director
  • Senior quantity surveyor (QS)
  • Private QS
  • Principal designer
  • Senior/principal engineer
  • Company Secretary
  • Contracts manager
  • Senior project manager
  • Non-executive director

Pre-qualification criteria:

Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:

Either previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health and Safety course or working knowledge of the following health and safety legislation with the anticipation that course content and the end of course assessment will require delegates to consider these legislations in context with a director’s role and responsibility:

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  • Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969
  • Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015
  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

CITB continues to recommend that the pre-requisite eLearning is completed by delegates before completing the classroom course. This is because the learning content provides the foundation of information that will be expanded on in this course.

Course Aims:

It is designed to meet the basic environmental knowledge that the sub-contract chain are required to prove to major contractors, and covers the environmental aspects of the new HS&E touch screen test. The course will bring the candidates environmental and sustainability knowledge up to date by giving a thorough overview of the subject, relevant legislation and industry best practice.

It will enable them to identify, control and minimise the environmental impacts of their work and where possible identify environmental improvement opportunities.

Assessment:

Candidates must take part in ongoing classroom discussions; the course is assessed with a final multiple-choice examination.

Certification:

Learners will receive an accredited CITB certificate on successful completion of the course. Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date.

£225.50
plus vat

Training Body

All available dates

Location

RGW Offices, Aspen House, Great Brickkiln Street, Wolverhampton, WV3 0PT

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