Apply Workplace Safety and Health in Construction Sites (ACS)

WSQ “Apply Workplace Safety and Health in Construction Sites” is a mandatory WSH training course for all workers working in the construction. Construction workers are required to go through the course before they start work.

The Workplace Safety and Health (Factories, Safety Training Courses order – clause 2 (6)) stipulates “Any worker employed in manual labour to carry out construction work in building and engineering construction worksites must undergo a safety and health training course approved by the Commissioner for Workplace Safety and Health”.

The “Apply Workplace Safety and Health in Construction Sites” is a mandatory WSH training

course for all workers working in construction sites.

Entry Requirement

• Have employment status as manual labour to carry out construction work in building and engineering construction worksites & be medically fit & above 18 years.
• Participant must be able to read, write, speak and to manipulate numbers at a proficiency level equivalent to Employability Skills (ES) level 2 (The language in which the course is conducted).
• Students are expected to bring their own safety shoes for the second day of the course.

Course Overview

• To equip all personnel with the relevant safety competencies to work in the Process and related industries;
• To reduce the gestation period before the worker can start working by harmonizing the regulatory requirements with the industry endorsed WSQ training; and
• To provide clear progression pathway and address the necessary skills required to move up to the next level of responsibility
• A3 size laminated workplace picture to identify unsafe acts and unsafe conditions
• Activate alarm and evacuate the classroom-practical evacuation drill

Course Content

• Identify own roles and responsibilities as an employee in a construction job
• Follow safe work procedures in a construction job
• Follow safe “Work-at-Height” procedures
• Respond to fire emergencies