Fire Safety Awareness (City & Guilds)

To provide delegates with a basic understanding of health and safety, along with knowledge of the principle hazards and risks, legislation and best practice to safely work on Highways England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN).

• Working on the network
• Fatal risks
• Understand what is Customer Service to Highways England and the Supply Chain
• Gain a basic understanding of temporary traffic management
• Be able to identify and describe main environmental issues found on sites
• Be able to describe how H&S knowledge and good working practice can improve behaviour on a works site
• Working within temporary traffic management
• Your personal health and safety commitment
• Gain an overview of Highways England’s minimum expectation for working on their strategic road network (SRN)
• Be able to identify the essential health and wellbeing points to consider in the workplace
• Be able to identify examples of poor behaviour on a works site
• Occupational health and wellbeing
• Environmental protection
• Understand the main requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act
• Be able to review fatal risks that occur when working on the SRN
• State the impact upon themselves, their lives and their families and friends of a serious accident at work
• Successfully undertake End of Course test (Pass mark 75%)