IOSH SHE for Construction Site Managers

Course overview:
The IOSH Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Site Managers will meet the needs of your business within a timescale to suit you. Delivered over five days, this flexible course will demonstrate how a focus on effective safety and health management will improve efficiency and the wellbeing of your staff. 

They’ll learn how to manage every aspect of the site, but not with the aim of becoming specialist environmental or safety and health professionals themselves. Instead they will be taught the techniques to ensure that all requirements are correctly implemented.

As an example, we do not intend to teach you how to write a COSHH assessment, but we will make sure you can understand it and implement it effectively. We understand your role and the crucial information you need to do your job effectively.

Course duration:
Our highly qualified and experienced instructors will deliver the course over four days.  

Course content:

Module 1: Understanding the background

• Construction industry hazards and risks that can cause harm to employees, contractors, neighbours and others.
• Safety, health and environmental management good practice.
• The principles of construction law

Module 2: Preparing for work

• Effective management on construction sites.
• The importance of competent and trained personnel on construction sites.
• Mitigating risk on construction sites.
• Emergency planning procedures.
• The environmental impacts and issues on construction sites.
• Effective waste management systems.

Module 3: Setting up the site

• Welfare of workers on construction sites
• Traffic management
• Identifying hazards on a construction site

Module 4: Construction phase health and safety

• How to manage lifting operations safely including lifting procedures and inspections
• Excavation risks and control measures
• Control, management and rescue procedures when working in confined spaces
• Control, management and emergency procedures when working with electrical systems and equipment on site
• Control and management of overhead and underground services
• Control and management of temporary works, lone working and out-of-hours workers
• The key issues and control measures when working at height
• Common hazards on construction sites, their effects and symptoms and how to manage them
• Factors to consider when building and preparing for an inspection
• Reasons to investigate incidents
• The benefits of incident investigation
• Incident reporting
• How to identify and implement corrective actions

Assessment and examination:
Assessments are designed to evaluate delegates' understanding of basic health and safety. Assessments include a multi-format question paper, plus a practical risk assessment project.

Qualifications / certification:
Successful delegates are awarded an IOSH Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Site Managers certificate.