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12 Health and Safety Training
– Site Safety Plus (SSP)

The Site Safety Plus (SSP) suite of courses provides the building, civil engineering and allied industries with a
range of courses for people seeking to develop skills in this area.
Site Safety Plus (SSP) courses are designed to give everyone, from operative to senior manager, the skills they
need to progress through the industry.

Courses range from the one-day Health and Safety Awareness course to the five-day Site Management Safety
Training Scheme. There are also refresher courses to make sure that workers are keeping up with the latest
practices and techniques to be safe on the job.
The following training will assist employers in meeting the requirements of the Build UK Training Standard
Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) Site Safety Plus (Course via CITB)

This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and
safety strategic role in the built environment with the aim of recognising directors’ duties of care and the implications of
non-compliance with health and safety legislation.
OVERVIEW ENTRY REQUIREMENTS that course content and the end
The course will provide a summary of how This course has been developed of course assessment will require
delegates to consider these
to promote a positive organisational culture for directors and senior
for health and safety. Workshop exercises managers active in a health legislations in context with a
throughout the day will give delegates the and safety strategic role in director’s role and responsibility:
opportunity to discuss their thoughts about the built environment from • Health and Safety at Work etc.
health and safety and their responsibilities any organisational size in Act 1974
in an open forum. construction, civil engineering • Employers’ Liability (Compulsory
The course will provide a summary of how or allied trades, and therefore Insurance) Act 1969
to promote a positive organisational culture this should be considered before • Construction (Design and
for health and safety. Group exercises enrolling delegates on to this Management) Regulations
throughout the day will give delegates the course. (CDM) 2015
opportunity to discuss their thoughts about Examples of relevant roles (not
health and safety and their responsibilities exhaustive) are: • Management of Health and
in an open forum. • Financial/Operations director Safety at Work Regulations 1999
The course aims to help directors to: • Senior quantity surveyor (QS) It is recommended that delegates:
• recognise the moral, economic and legal • Private QS Complete the pre-course
costs/implications of decisions made eLearning. Successful completion
in the boardroom that may make their • Principal designer of this component generates a
business liable • Senior/principal engineer digital certificate, a copy of which

• understand the significance of strategic • Company secretary must be sent to the Approved

management of risks Training Organisation (ATO) or
• appreciate the range of consequences • Contracts manager Training Provider Network (TPN)
from failing to manage health and safety • Senior project manager member at least 24 hours before
effectively • Non-executive director the commencement of the main
• understand the importance of competent course and may be subject to
duty holders, and the significance of PREREQUISITES audit. The training providers must

their cooperation, communication and Delegates must be able to ensure copies of certificates are

coordination of health and safety on demonstrate the following: retained for audit purposes and
projects that the course results form is
• recognise the need to appoint competent Either previously completed a updated accordingly.
health and safety assistance, and the CITB Director’s Role for Health
limitations of such an appointment, and and Safety course CERTIFICATION
• identify the basic tools to introduce a or Certification for this course is valid

proactive health and safety culture into working knowledge of the for 5 years. To remain certified in

an organisation, and the benefits of this following health and safety this area, you will need to retake

approach. legislation with the anticipation the course before the expiry date.
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