IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers

This course provides a globally-recognised and respected training experience and accredition for supervisors and managers propelling any business to a higher health and safety level. The course is highly flexible and is built to fit around the business minimising any disruption. 

The course provides a step-by-step guide to understanding and managing the risks. Keeping your business healthy and safe with an effective training programme will enable you to reduce the cost of accidents and illness by up to 40 per cent.

This course has been approved by CITB and Build UK. This gives employers access the CITB levy to claim grant funding for placing staff on this course.

The IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers is the ideal qualification for those in construction who occupy a managerial or supervisory role. The course provides a comprehensive mindset in managing health and safety for you and your workforce, gifting reassurnace and confidence in job at hand. The course can drastically improve safety awareness culture throughout a business and can help boost productivity with fewer days lost to injury or sickness. This qualification drives through a progressive attitude towards health and safety and instructs on how to be more pro-active, not reactive. 

Course Duration: 4 days

Course Modules:

Module 1 - Local Law and Enforcement

Takes learners through local laws and regulations helping to understand how different lawful bodies operate. 

Module 2 - Preparing for work

Provides a finer understanding of how to successfully prepare for work and how certain premeditated measures can improve productivity. 

Module 3 - General Management of the site

This module instructs on how to competently operate in a management position on a construction site. The unit covers pivotal areas such as method statements and the use of permits to work. 

Module 4 - The importance of managing environmental aspects and impacts related to construction projects

This unit dissects the benefits of sustainable working practices and how they can be integrated into your business, turning your business into a progressive environmentally friendly company. 

Module 5 - Effective construction design and management

This unit enables learners to better their understanding of core principles surrounding construction design and the management they entail.

Module 6 - Understanding key issues and control of working at height

This modules covers the potential risks and problems that arise from working at heights, especially on roofs. It goes through the process of risk assessments and operating with scaffolds and fragile surfaces.

Module 7 - Requirements for the welfare of construction workers on site

Better understand whats required to successfully manage on the construction site whilst keeping health and safety in mind.

Examination:

Learners must complete both theory and practical assessment at the end of this course. The theory segment consists of an online multiple-choice test containing 25 questions. The delegates will have to score 21 or above to pass.

The practical assessment consists of a risk assessment assessing the risk of a hazard on their own site. The practical assessment must be completed within 2 weeks. This project will be marked using IOSH criteria and will have a maximum of 38 marks.

There are no explicit entry requirements to sit the IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers. However, as the name implies, we recommend that Construction Site Managers take the course, as the knowledge and understanding provided will directly benefit their role.