Course Description
This course will suit you if you have responsibilities for planning, organising, monitoring, and administering groups as a site manager. During the course, you will learn how to implement all health, safety, welfare, and environmental legislation, implement any new industry best practice, and understand your duties and responsibilities for health, safety, welfare, and the environment.
SMSTS Course Aims & Objectives
The SMSTS course aims to help site managers:
- Manage and implement health, safety, and environmental aspects on site, in accordance with up-to-date legal provisions and within the context of their role.
- Implement up-to-date guidance and industry best practices.
- Develop an understanding of responsibility and accountability for site health, safety, welfare, and the environment.
- Recognise that a safe site is efficient, economical, productive, and environmentally friendly.
At the end of the period of training, delegates will be aware of, and able to implement or state:
- Health, safety, welfare, and environmental legislation which affects them during their daily work.
- Up-to-date guidance and industry best practices.
Attendance
Full attendance of the course is mandatory to achieve a pass.
Entry Requirements
There are no formal entry requirements for the course; however, delegates are advised to hold or be about to hold the role of a site manager. Previous health and safety knowledge is recommended. Those without previous health and safety management experience are recommended to sit the two-day SSSTS course if they have not done so already.
Photographic ID will be requested by the tutor at the start of the course, i.e., Driving Licence/Passport.
Please understand that it is a requirement of our Awarding Body – Site Safety Plus (CITB) that ALL delegates attending this course must be able to read and understand English. If you do not think you will have the sufficient English skills to pass the examination, please contact us for advice.
Learner Numbers
The minimum number of delegates per course is 4. The maximum number of delegates per course is 20. These are a requirement of the awarding body and are not subject to appeal.
Site Safety Plus Course (SSP)
The CITB SMSTS is part of the Site Safety Plus courses suite. CITB Site Safety Plus provides a range of courses for people seeking to develop skills in the building, civil engineering, and related industries. Designed from operative to senior manager level, they provide the skills you need to progress through the construction industry, from a one-day Health and Safety Awareness course to the five-day Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS). We also offer refresher courses so that workers are always kept up to date with the latest techniques and industry practices to be safe whilst carrying out their job. This course can also be delivered as an unaccredited course if required.
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