CITB Health and Safety Awareness

This one-day Health and safety awareness (HSA) course is designed to aid the understanding of potential hazards the construction worker may face on site. 

It provides a practical summary of health, safety, welfare and environmental issues. It identifies the delegate’s responsibilities for looking after themselves and others, outlines the employer’s duties and explains what should be done if the worker thinks that anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk.  

The course provides health and safety awareness and is endorsed by Build UK as standard training for all operatives on site.

Delegates taking the HSA course should be able to achieve all of the learning outcomes listed below by the end of the course. 

Module 1 – Legal and management 

1. Legal and general responsibilities - State the general responsibilities for health and safety at work.
2. Accident reporting and recording - State how you and your employer are responsible for maintaining a safe place to work.

Module 2 – Health and welfare 

1. Health and welfare - State the common causes of work-related ill health. Identify the risks and how you can reduce those risks.
2. First aid and emergency procedures - State the first aid and emergency procedures and know your role within them.
3. Personal protective equipment - Identify the rules for personal protective equipment (PPE), the common forms and their use.
4. Asbestos - List the risks of asbestos in the workplace, how to work with it and its management.
5. Respiratory hazards - State the risks and how to mitigate workplace respiratory hazards.
6. Noise and vibration - State the health risks of excessive noise and vibration and how to mitigate those risks.
7. Hazardous substances -Identify the hazardous substances within the workplace and how to ensure those risks are mitigated.
8. Manual handling - Identify the risks of manual handling, how to recognise activities that pose a risk and how to manage that risk.

Module 3 – General safety 

1. Safety signs - Identify the safety signs and signals on site.
2. Fire prevention and control - Identify the importance of providing a safe place to work and individual responsibilities.
3. Electrical safety, work equipment and hand-held tools - Identify the common risks associated with electricity and equipment. Identify a safe method of working.
4. Mobile plant and site vehicles - State how to work safely around site and the risks from plant and moving machinery.
5. Lifting operations and equipment - State the importance of planning lifting operations and the care of equipment. 

Module 4 – High risk activities 

1. Working at height - Identify the risks of working at height, how to plan and employ a safe system of work and the use of access equipment.
2. Excavations - State the main dangers of excavations and how to follow a safe system of working near or in excavations.
3. Confined spaces - State the definition of a confined space and how to work safely within a safe system of work.

Module 5 – Environment 

1. Environmental awareness - State your role in preventing environmental damage on site.
2. Pollution - State your role in preventing pollution.
3. Waste materials - Explain how environmental damage can occur from improper management of waste materials.
4. Nuisance - Explain your part in reducing nuisance (for example, noise, dust and light).