CITB Health & Safety Awareness

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Course Overview

Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) Health & Safety Awareness.

This course is for you if you’re considering, or already, working within the construction and civil engineering industry.

This course highlights potential hazards when working on site and provides practical advice on keeping yourself and your colleagues safe. It covers your individual and employer’s responsibilities, including what you can do if you think anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk.

On completion of this course most delegates would then sit their CITB Health, Safety and Environment touch screen test in order to obtain their CSCS green labourers card, this card is used as proof that the person has passed the relevant training and should be able to demonstrate Health and Safety competence.

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Course Content

•Occupational Health
•How your role fits into the control and management of the site
•Risk assessments and method statements
•Typical construction hazards and how to control them
•How everyone can help achieve better practical standards of safety on site
•Their individual responsibilities for their own safety and the safety of others
•Manual Handling
•Legal requirements and liabilities
•Working at height
•Fire prevention
•Work equipment