CITB SSSTS Refresher Online (Instructor-led)
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What is the CITB SSSTS Refresher Course?
Our SSSTS refresher (Safety Supervisor Training Scheme refresher course is delivered by our in-house qualified and experienced course instructors. The course will bring your health and safety knowledge up to date including with regard to current legislation and familiarise you with current best practice within the construction industry.
Our one day CITB SSSTS refresher course is designed to allow supervisors to continue to undertake their supervisory responsibilities whilst maintaining a safe, efficient and productive site.
The SSSTS refresher course is provided for those delegates who have previously completed the CITB SSSTS course successfully. It is accredited by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and recognised by BuildUK as meeting the required standard for all construction site managers working on BuildUK sites.
On successful completion of this course you will receive a certificate from the CITB that will be valid for 5 years. In order to remain certified however, you will need to retake the SSSTS refresher course again before the certificate expiry date.
CITB Accreditation
The SSSTS course is accredited by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and recognised by BuildUK as meeting the required standard for all supervisors and team leaders working on BuildUK sites.
On successful completion of this refresher course you will receive a SSSTS certificate from the CITB that will be valid for 5 years.
Who Should Attend the SSSTS Refresher?
The SSSTS refresher course is only for delegates who have previously passed the two-day Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) course and can provide proof of successful attendance.
If a delegate cannot provide a copy of their certificate, the online card checker can be used to establish if a delegate currently holds a valid SSSTS certificate.
If an individual cannot be located on the system and no evidence of their certificate can be found, they will have to attend the full Site supervision safety training scheme (SSSTS) course.
Failure to attend the refresher course prior to the expiry of an existing certificate will require the delegate to re-enter the scheme by completing the full Site Supervision Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) course if they wish to remain in the scheme.
Delegates must be competent in English at site supervisor level.
What's Included in the CITB SSSTS Refresher Course?
Delivery Method
Online (Instructor-led)
Course Detail
The SSSTS refresher course will update your health and safety knowledge and provide you with a thorough overview of legislative changes and their impact in the workplace. It will enable you to fulfil your responsibilities regarding health, safety, welfare and the environment on a construction site and implement all updated health, safety, welfare and environmental legislation affecting your supervisory role.
Course Content
The two-day Site supervision safety training scheme (SSSTS) refresher course aims to bring health and safety knowledge up-to-date, as well as giving a thorough overview of the legislative changes and their impact in the workplace.
The course includes a wide range of topics which have been affected by changes to procedures, and builds upon the material in the original course.
Course Aims
To help site supervisors to:
Supervise health and safety on site in accordance with current legal provisions and within the context of their role.
Develop an understanding of responsibility and accountability for site health, safety and welfare of workers on site.
Recognise that a safe site is efficient, economical, productive and environmentally friendly.
Assessment & Examination
There is a mandatory examination paper for this course consisting of 25 questions, selected by CITB, covering all aspects of the course.
The examination pass mark is 80% (24 out of 30).
The paper consists of 22 multiple choice questions and three short written questions. There are four safety critical questions in each exam paper. The delegate must answer all four of these questions correctly to pass the exam. The multiple choice questions are worth 1 point each, whereas written questions can score between 1-3 marks.
The exam paper forms the basis of assessment of whether or not a delegate has successfully achieved a satisfactory level of understanding to be awarded the Site supervision safety training scheme refresher (SSSTS-R) certificate.
The examination lasts for 30 minutes and must be completed within this time.
Delegates are permitted to use the Construction site supervision (GE706) publication for the last ten minutes of the examination period.
Accreditation & Recognition
The course is accredited by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) as part of the Site Safety Plus course suite and recognised by BuildUK as meeting the required standard for construction site managers working on BuildUK sites.
On successful completion of this course you will receive a certificate from the CITB that will be valid for 5 years. In order to remain certified however, you will need to retake the course before the certificate expiry date.
Pre-Requisites
Only those delegates who have successfully undertaken a SSSTS course or subsequent refresher course are eligible to attend this training course. As a result all delegates are required to hold a valid SSSTS certificate and will need to provide evidence of this to the training provider.
Delegates should also note that this refresher course must be attended prior to the expiry of an existing certificate else they will be required to re-enter the scheme by successfully completing the full SSSTS course.
The minimum entry requirement for the SSSTS course is a good understanding of spoken and written English.
Further Studying and Progression
Once candidates have successfully passed this one day health and safety awareness training course, the next step would be to enrol on a SMSTS programme, which takes place over the course of five days.
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Step 3
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