Day 1 of the SMSTS Course Underway

Posted on: 18/04/2023

SMSTS Course - Day 1 Complete.

Tennyson Suite's Training Centre was the venue for the latest SMSTS Course to be held for its clients.

Amongst the delegates attending were projects and contracts managers and newly appointed site managers from Bishop and Levett and Project Managers from University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust. 

Using practical team workshops, the delegates have experienced hands-on risk assessment training, learnt about the primary and subordinate health and safety legislation, and taken away practical technological advancements to help them in the workplace, including applications such as 'what-3-words' to direct deliveries, operatives, and visitors directly to their site entrance gates / doors, vehicle parking locations, and also specific workplaces.

Over the next 5 weeks, the course will examine those construction activities undertaken on their projects which require proactive health and safety management to ensure a safe working environment on their sites.

We shall cover:

1. Site Presentation and Security
2. COVID-19 – Plan, Management, Review
3. Access and Egress
4. Traffic Management and Vehicle/Pedestrian Segregation
5. Welfare Facilities
6. Control of Pests
7. Personal Protective Equipment
8. Falls from Height
9. Lifting Operations and Materials Handling
10. Work Involving Heavy Prefabricated Components
11. Manual Handling
12. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
13. Asbestos
14. Environmental Protection
15. Fire Precautions, Exits and Emergency Procedures
16. Services – Electric, Gas, Water, Data, Telecoms
17. Buried Services and Overhead Cables and other Obstructions
18. Work Near Power Lines
19. Excavations, also considering Burial and/or Engulfment
20. Mobile Plant
21. Hand Arm Vibration
22. Noise (inherent and introduced)
23. Confined Space Working
24. First Aid Provision
25. Site Administration

Our thanks go out to the delegates for their participation on Day 1, and we are looking forward to next week.