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

This course is IOSH Certified

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

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?

• Multiple-choice examination.
• A hazard spotting exercise.

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

• 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