Course Description
Construction kills more workers than almost any other industry, and the reasons are structural: temporary workplaces, a shifting workforce, multiple contractors, and hazards that change as the work progresses. Managing safety on site means managing constant change.
This comprehensive two-week training course develops construction health and safety competence. Participants learn construction hazards and their control, safety management through the project lifecycle, design and planning for safety, work at height, excavation and ground works, lifting operations, plant and equipment, demolition, occupational health on site, and the coordination of multiple contractors on a live site.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain construction's hazard profile and safety performance
- Manage safety through the construction project lifecycle
- Address safety in design and planning
- Control work at height
- Manage excavation and ground works safely
- Control lifting operations and plant
- Manage demolition and structural work
- Coordinate contractors and manage occupational health on site
How the course is delivered
This training course combines construction safety management with practical site scenarios, inspection exercises and risk assessment. Participants work through hazards as they arise across a project lifecycle.
Delivered over two weeks, the programme includes a practical site-based risk assessment exercise through which participants demonstrate applied competence.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Construction health and safety professionals
- Site managers, agents and supervisors
- Project managers in construction
- Designers and planners
- Anyone with safety responsibilities on construction sites
Daily programme
- Construction's hazard profile and performance
- Legal framework and duty holders
- Safety management in construction
- Roles across the project lifecycle
- Safety in design
- Planning for safety
- Method statements and risk assessment
- Site set-up and logistics
- Site organisation and welfare
- Contractor coordination
- Induction, competence and supervision
- Site inspection
- Work at height hazards
- Scaffolding and access
- Fragile surfaces and roof work
- Fall protection systems
- Excavation hazards and collapse
- Support systems
- Underground and overhead services
- Confined spaces in construction
- Lifting operations and equipment
- Cranes and lifting plans
- Mobile plant and vehicles
- Traffic management on site
- Structural safety during construction
- Temporary works
- Demolition hazards and planning
- Asbestos and hazardous materials
- Dust, silica and respiratory hazards
- Noise, vibration and manual handling
- Chemical exposure in construction
- Health surveillance
- Fire safety on site
- Electrical safety and temporary supplies
- Emergency arrangements
- Incident investigation
- Performance measurement
- Auditing construction safety
- Practical site risk assessment exercise
- Review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
