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CITB SSSTS Course
Two days for supervisors, forepersons, team leaders and chargehands who need to supervise work safely and know their legal duties.
About this course
This two day course covers all relevant legislation that affects safe working.
It highlights the need for risk assessment in the workplace, the implementation of the necessary control measures and adequate communication, in order to sustain a health and safety culture in the workforce.
It looks at the impact of good leadership on site and how to embed positive behaviours into site safe practice.
- Fulfil their role and responsibilities as a site supervisor in promoting and maintaining health, safety and welfare on construction sites
- Apply relevant health and safety legislation, policies and management systems to support legal compliance and safe working practices
- Identify and manage risks using risk assessments, method statements, permits to work, inspections and other appropriate control measures
- Promote the health, wellbeing and safety of workers by recognising occupational health risks and supporting effective welfare arrangements
- Supervise construction activities safely by applying appropriate controls to high risk work, plant, equipment and other site hazards
- Support effective environmental management by recognising environmental risks and applying appropriate controls
How completing this course helps you
- Hold a CITB Site Safety Plus certificate, recognised on sites across the UK
- Show the card checker and your employer that the training is current
- Renew before the five years are up rather than starting again
Who should attend?
Designed for those who have, or are about to have, supervisory responsibilities.
Entry requirements. None formally. Delegates should hold, or be about to hold, the role of a site supervisor, and previous health and safety knowledge is recommended.
Ready to take the next step?
Choose a delivery option, compare dates and book with confidence, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
Cards and qualifications
SSSTS, and how the gold CSCS Supervisor card actually works
SSSTS does not award a CSCS card. It is a CITB Site Safety Plus certificate, valid for five years, and it is evidence of supervisor safety training rather than evidence of occupational competence. No Site Safety Plus course awards a card.
Sites ask for it all the same, and most ask for both. Principal contractors routinely write SSSTS into the site rules for anyone running a gang, alongside the card that matches the role, which is why supervisors end up carrying the certificate and the card together.
The gold Supervisor card comes from a construction related supervisory or technical NVQ at Level 3 or 4, plus a pass in the CITB Specialist Supervisor health, safety and environment test. We deliver the course and the NVQ, so the two can be planned together rather than a year apart.
Get the certificate the site is asking for
Two days, in the classroom or live online. SSSTS is valid for five years and a one day refresher keeps it current.
Start the NVQ while you carry on working
A Level 3 or 4 supervisory NVQ is assessed on the job. No exams and no day release. Your assessor comes to you and builds the evidence around work you are already doing.
Sit the specialist test
The CITB Specialist Supervisor health, safety and environment test, which is the one CSCS need for this card rather than the operatives test.
Apply for the gold card
With the NVQ and the specialist test in hand, apply to CSCS. The gold Supervisor card runs for five years.
Method of assessment
How SSSTS is assessed
There is an assessment. CITB set it for every Site Safety Plus course and it is taken during or at the end of the course.
Take part in full
CITB require full attendance across the 2 days before the assessment can be taken.
Assessment
CITB standard GET0040, Health and Safety in Construction Site Supervision (SSP). An end of course practical assessment or knowledge test that measures the learning outcomes, with a pass or fail criteria.
Certificate
A CITB Site Safety Plus certificate, valid for five years. Renew before it expires or the full course has to be taken again. CITB grant Grant Tier 2, 15 learning hours, standard GET0040.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
Dates and locations
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Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run SSSTS at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
Tell us roughly how many people and when, and we will come back with options and a price, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
SSSTS FAQs
No. SSSTS is a CITB Site Safety Plus certificate, not a card. The gold Supervisor card is issued against a construction related supervisory or technical NVQ at Level 3 or 4, together with a pass in the CITB Specialist Supervisor health, safety and environment test. Sites often want both, which is why they are usually done together.
Because it is the training the industry recognises for someone supervising work. Principal contractors write it into site rules alongside the card that matches the role. The card says what you are qualified to do. The certificate says your supervisor safety training is current.
Five years. A one day SSSTS refresher taken before it expires keeps it running for another five. Let it lapse and the full two day course has to be taken again.
Yes, and that is how it is designed. A supervisory NVQ is assessed on site around the work you already do, so there is no day release and no written exam.
The CITB Specialist Supervisor test, not the operatives test. CSCS need a pass from within the last two years at the point you apply.
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