• Health & Safety legislation
• Legal duties of Employer, Self-Employed and Employee
• CDM Regulations
• Health & Safety Policy
• Risk Assessments, method statements and communication
• Employee Training
• Communicating with site staff
• Principles of leadership
• Measuring, monitoring and reporting on H&S
• Managing H&S Risks
• Accidents, preventative measures and reporting
• Site inspections and daily H&S Management
• Health in the workplace
• Welfare facilities
• Mental Health management
• Drugs & Alcohol - Identify, manage and support staff
• Hazardous substances
• Lead and Asbestos management
• Noise - mitigation and managing the risk
• Vibration - assessment and control
• Fire Planning and dangerous substance control
• Working with live electrical circuits
• Temporary works
• Control and management of plant
• Control of Lifting operations
• Management of lone. mobile or out of hours workers
• Working at height
• Use of scaffold towers
• Planning Excavations
• Underground and overhead services
• Confined space

This course is administered by NPORS, and is designed for all individuals responsible for planning, organising, monitoring, controlling and administering a work force. Typically these would be site managers, potential site managers, supervisors, and anyone with health and safety responsibilities.

5 Days

Course assessment is determined by achievement in four criteria:

• Full attendance of all sessions
• Key excercises undertaken during the course
• Overall assessment by tutor
• Written examination paper