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CITB Health and Safety Awareness (HSA) in Stoke-on-Trent
One day at our Stoke-on-Trent centre, and the course half of the route to a green CSCS Labourer card. The other half is the HS&E test, and we are an approved test centre too, so you can do both here.
About this course
Health and Safety Awareness is the operative level course in the CITB Site Safety Plus scheme. One day, no entry requirements, and the starting point for anybody new to construction.
It covers what the industry expects of you and what you are entitled to expect back: the common hazards, the reason the controls exist, your own responsibilities, and how to raise something that is not right without it becoming a problem.
Because we are also an approved CITB test centre, Stoke is a sensible place to do the whole green card route in one go. Book the course and the HS&E test together and the card application can go in within a fortnight rather than a couple of months.
The centre is Trent House, 234 Victoria Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2LW. Fenton sits just off the A50 and the A500, a few minutes from junction 15 of the M6, and Stoke-on-Trent station is a short taxi ride away.
We draw candidates from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Crewe, Congleton, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Market Drayton and the wider Staffordshire and south Cheshire area. If a date at Stoke-on-Trent does not suit, the same course runs at our other centres and we can deliver it at your own premises anywhere in the UK.
- The general rules and responsibilities of everyone on site
- How to protect their health and welfare in the workplace
- Key information about general safety on site
- How to stay safe during high risk activities such as work at height
- How they can protect the environment by having an awareness about waste and forms of nuisance
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?
Anybody new to construction or moving into it, across Stoke-on-Trent and north Staffordshire. Labourers, apprentices, trainees, people changing career into the industry, and employers inducting new starters onto site.
Entry requirements. None. There are no formal entry requirements and the course suits all ability levels.
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Choose a delivery option, compare dates and book with confidence, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
At Stoke-on-Trent
What to expect on the day
The course is the same wherever you sit it. What changes is the room, the journey and the people in it, and those matter more than providers usually admit.
Our Stoke-on-Trent centre is Trent House, 234 Victoria Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2LW. Fenton sits just off the A50 and the A500, a few minutes from junction 15 of the M6, and Stoke-on-Trent station is a short taxi ride away. Joining instructions go out ahead of the course with timings, what to bring and where to go when you arrive.
If you are booking for a group and travel is the problem, we deliver this course at employers’ own premises anywhere in the country. For six or more people that is usually cheaper per head and nobody loses a day on the road.
Before the day
Joining instructions with timings, the address and what to bring. Tell us at booking if anybody needs support with reading, writing or access and we will sort it quietly.
On the day
Arrive a few minutes early. Bring photographic identification, which most awarding bodies require before they will certificate you.
Afterwards
We tell you the outcome and handle the registration and certification with the awarding body. If anything needs resitting we will get it booked.
Method of assessment
How Health & Safety Awareness (HSA) 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 1 day before the assessment can be taken.
Assessment
CITB set the assessment for this course under the Site Safety Plus scheme rules. Ask us for the current assessment format before you book if it matters to you.
Certificate
A CITB Site Safety Plus certificate, valid for five years. Renew before it expires or the full course has to be taken again.
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 Health & Safety Awareness (HSA) 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
Health & Safety Awareness (HSA) FAQs
No, and this is the most common mix up on the whole site. The HS&E test is a 45 minute touch screen exam. Health and Safety Awareness is a one day course. A green CSCS Labourer card needs both, and booking one does not cover the other. We run both, so you can do the pair with us.
For CITB registered employers who are up to date with their Levy Returns, usually yes. We submit the claim on your behalf. Rates change, so we will give you the current figure rather than publishing one here.
Five years, like the rest of the Site Safety Plus scheme.
Trent House, 234 Victoria Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2LW. Fenton sits just off the A50 and the A500, a few minutes from junction 15 of the M6, and Stoke-on-Trent station is a short taxi ride away. Full joining instructions with timings go out before the course.
The same course runs at our other centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, and we deliver it at employers’ own premises anywhere in the UK. Tell us roughly when you need it and we will find something or put a date on.
Yes, anywhere in the country. For six or more people it normally works out cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and we can build the day around your shift patterns.
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