Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers
IOSH Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers is intended for construction workers that work in the UK or overseas. The course gives you an introduction to health and safety so that you can apply your knowledge in the workplace with confidence.
Overview
- Give you an understanding of everyone’s safety, health and environmental responsibilities on a construction site
- Enable you to recognise how you can improve safety, health and environmental issues on a construction site
- Ensure that you clearly understand your safety and health responsibilities
Duration
5-6 Hours
Learning Aims & Outcome
- Understand the importance of working safely on a construction site
- Identify and understand everyone’s responsibilities in relation to safety, health and wellbeing on a construction site
- Understand how law can have an impact on construction sites
- Identify construction site hazards and risks, and understand their impact and how to control them
Value of Course
Developed by Professionals
This course is IOSH Certified
Assesment
To complete this course, you must pass the IOSH Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Workers exam. The cost of the exam is already included in the cost of the course
E-learning
- Designed to work around your schedule
- Complete the course in your own time
- Access learning materials from any device
How IOSH Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers Assessed?
IOSH Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers is assessed in 2 parts:
- Multiple-choice examination.
- A hazard spotting exercise.
An IOSH Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of both parts of the assessment.
Course programme
Module 1 – Setting the scene
- Setting the scene
- Local and global environmental aspects and impacts
- Summary of key responsibilities
Module 2 – Law and enforcement
- The basics of law and enforcement
- Key health and safety responsibilities
- CDM 2015
- Summary of key responsibilities
Module 3 – General site safety
- Risk assessment
- Risk control
- Risk assessment and risk control in practice
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE)
- Safety signs and symbols
- Welfare
- Traffic management
- Work equipment
- Emergency procedures and first aid
- Fire
- Accidents
- Summary of key responsibilities
Module 4 – High risk activities
- Lifting operations and equipment
- Excavations
- Confined spaces
- Electricity
- Slips, trips and falls
- Work at height – overview
- Work at height – roof work
- Working at height – access equipment
- Summary of key responsibilities
Module 5 – Health
- Mental health
- Asbestos
- Lead
- Vibration
- Noise
- Manual handling
- Hazardous Substances
- Drugs and alcohol
- Summary of key responsibilities
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes of IOSH Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Workers:
To give managers and supervisors an understanding of everyone’s safety and health responsibilities in the workplace
To enable managers and supervisors to recognise how they can influence, control and monitor risk to improve safety and health issues in the workplace
By the end of this training course, you will be able to:
- Define the key terms relating to safety and health
- Describe the principles that underpin good safety and health performance
- Describe the key reasons to manage safety and health in the workplace
- Identify how the law can have an impact on safety and health in the workplace
- Describe how to assess, reduce and control risk in the workplace
- Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to manage them
- Identify how to evaluate and respond to an incident
- List the benefits and characteristics of an effective health and safety management system
