What is the course?

The course typically takes five days to complete and covers all the key areas of health and safety that an applicant needs to know.

What You Will Learn In Level 1 Health And Safety (Construction Environments):

The Importance Of Risk Assessments In Health and Safety

• How to identify and assess health and safety risks in a construction environment.
• What procedures are typically taken following risk assessments.
• Which types of PPE (Personal protective equipment) are necessary for the safe handling of a variety of harmful substances.
• Necessary knowledge pertaining to asbestos, how to identify it, and why you should be aware of its potential harms.

Guidelines For Safe Manual Handling

• Safety regulations for the safe handling of materials on site whether they are moved by hand or mechanically.
• The proper methods of storage on a construction site of tools and materials.
• Potential harms and specific injuries which can result from neglecting safety rules for manual handling.
• How to effectively complete accident reports, and how to use reports to highlight potential dangerous situations, so actions can be taken quickly.

How To Work Safely At Heights

• Why working at elevated positions present obvious dangers, and what the associated injuries are that can result from falls.
• What safety rules apply when working on elevated platforms and scaffolding.
• The various safety equipment employed for working at heights and which ones are appropriate for a given setting.

Equipment and Plant Safety Requirements

• Establishing the rules regarding plant and equipment and how these rules are crucial to keep a site safe for labourers.
• Details on the potential injuries and harm to one’s health that can happen when working with, or in proximity to certain plant and equipment.
• Extensive information on how best to actively prevent plant and equipment related injuries from occurring.

How is the course taught and assessed?

In order to pass, an applicant must demonstrate competency and understanding of all the fundamental safety requirements in construction and site work. You will be assessed individually and possibly within a group setting.

Eager and contributive participation is vital to your successful attainment of the Level 1 Award. In addition, you will be required to sit for an examination constituting multiple choice questions.

What qualification you will receive upon completion of the course

Once you have satisfied all the requirements and successfully passed the assessments, you will gain a Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment. This award does not expire and nor do you ever need to worry about being assessed all over again. Hence we say the qualification is recognised permanently.

What you can do further once you have this qualification

In order to qualify for your CSCS Green Labourer Card you have to gain some background knowledge in health and safety. This particular award now forms one of the required courses you will need to take if you wish to apply for and successfully attain the Green CSCS Card.

The basic entry requirements to begin the course

In order to participate in this course there are no other requirements except basic competence in speaking and writing the English language. This course is ideal for someone who would like to enter into the construction field as a labourer but has not undergone any sort of formal training before.

Last updated: Tuesday 19 June 2018 15:57:05