CITB – Directors Role for Health & Safety (Classroom and Remote Learning)

This course provides delegates with the knowledge and understanding required to promote a positive organisational structure for health and safety. The course aims to recognise the directors' duties of care and the moral, economic and legal costs and implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.

This attracts a CITB Short Course Duration Grant at Tier 1, with a value of £60.  Please see the Grants and Funding tab for further information.

• Recognise the moral, economic and legal costs/implications of decisions made in the boardroom that may make their business liable
• Understand the significance of strategic management of risks
• Appreciate the range of consequences from failing to manage health and safety effectively
• Understand the importance of competent duty holders, and the significance of their cooperation, communication and coordination of health and safety on projects
• Recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance, and the limitations of such an appointment, and
• Identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation, and the benefits of this approach
• Group exercises will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum

Assessment

• A combination of classroom-based theory and tutorials. You will be continuously assessed throughout the day and will have to complete a two-part written test comprising multi-choice questions and short written test associated with a case study.

• Classroom courses will provide physical CITB books on the day of training.
• Remote courses will provide digital CITB books as part of your course materials.

The course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment from any organisational size in construction, civil engineering or allied trades including: Financial/Operations Director, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Principal Designer/Engineer, Company Secretary, Contracts Manager, Senior Project Manager, Non-Executive Director. 

Even if you are not directly responsible for Health and Safety in your company, in your role as a Company Director you have joint responsibility with your fellow directors under Health and Safety legislation.

This course is recognised by Build UK as the standard for training for all senior managers and company directors.

Prerequisites

Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:

1) Either previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health and Safety course

or

working knowledge of the following health and safety legislation with the anticipation that course content and the end of course assessment will require delegates to consider these legislations in context with a director’s role and responsibility:

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969
• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

2) Completion of the pre-course eLearning is recommended. The interactive course takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete, but you don’t have to do it all at once. You can close the eLearning at any time and, on your return, pick up where you left off. Your progress will be saved automatically. We recommend that you sit the course in 30-minute chunks. 

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A combination of classroom-based theory and tutorials. You will be continuously assessed throughout the day and will have to complete a multiple-choice test.

Upon successfully completing the course you will be awarded a CITB Site Safety Plus certificate.

CITB Short Course Duration Grant

As of the 1st April 2023, the levy grants for CITB have been updated. For more information on the changes please click here.

Information for Employers

HSS Training is an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) with CITB, allowing our customers to claim grants for completing training on our registered courses.  The CITB levy and grants scheme has been introduced to ensure the UK construction industry has the skilled workforce that it needs; providing grants for employers to train their workers. This helps to maintain health & safety standards on construction sites, keeping the right skills available for the industry to grow. In turn this will allow projects to be completed on time and within budget, in a safe and sustainable manner.

How much is the Grant?

The grant rates are split into three tiers, determined by the duration and content of the course.

•Tier 1 = £60

•Tier 2 = £140

•Tier 3 = £240

Please refer to the Approved Course List on CITB’s website for the full course directory. Grants are paid once for each individual per course, with the exception of a renewal or refresher course.

Which courses are covered?

As a CITB accredited ATO, HSS Training has 20+ courses registered under the CITB Short Course Duration Grant.  Short duration courses last from 3 hours to 29 days, focusing on the core construction skills needed across the industry. 

The full list of approved courses is available on CITB’s Construction Training Directory.

• Assured Products - courses delivered to an agreed industry standard

• Recognised Products - an approved standard by a relevant awarding body that is widely accepted by the industry i.e. IPAF, PASMA, Ladder Association

• CITB - relating to the Site Safety Plus courses

How do I claim?

Q. What do I need to do as the employer?
A. Simply book your employee onto their required course (our full open schedule is available on the HSS Training website) and provide us with the following details: Delegate name, DOB, Address, NI Number and the Employer CITB Levy Number.

Q. How do I make a claim?
A. We will do everything for you. Because HSS Training is an ATO with CITB, following your employees successful completion of their course we will update the  construction Training Register and you will automatically receive the payment.

Q. How will I receive the payment?
A. Grants can only be paid back via bank transfer, so ensure that CITB hold your current bank details - you can do this through their secure online Bacs Direct Credit Authorisation Form.

Who can claim?

Any Employer can claim who has registered with CITB and meets their general grants scheme eligibility requirements. Short Duration grants are available to all directly employed Pay As You Earn (PAYE) staff and sub-contractors.

Note – grants are not paid to individual employees.

Eligibility Requirements

Employers are able to claim grants if they have sent a Levy Return to CITB by 30th November each year (where applicable).

Please refer to CITB’s website for more information on how Levy Returns are calculated for a company.