CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety Online (Instructor-led)

CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety Online Course

The CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) is a one-day training course for senior managers and company directors. It is created for anyone who plays a major role in shaping a company’s health and safety direction in the building environment.

You will learn how non-compliance to health and safety legislation can lead to big risks to your company. This Director’s role for Health and Safety course also highlights the financial and human consequences of not managing a safe and healthy work environment.

Why Take this CITB DRHS Course?

As one of our top CITB training courses; this course should be the first one you attend if you are a senior manager or director.

With the knowledge you gain, you will have the tools needed to make boardroom decisions that will positively impact your workforce’s health, safety and well-being.

What Does this CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety Course Involve?

This CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety course covers the following topics (for the full list of topics covered in this course, keep reading):

• The economics connotations of a dangerous working environment
• A company director’s responsibilities relating to health and safety
• The need to analyse your legal duties
• The construction design and management regulations

Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive) are:

• Financial/Operations Director
• Senior Quality Surveyor
• Private Quality Surveyor
• Principal Designer
• Senior/principal Designer
• Company Secretary
• Contracts Manager
• Senior Project Manager
• Non-executive Director

How is the CITB Health and Safety Awareness Course Delivered?

This Directors Role for Health and Safety course is completed from home or your workplace via an online virtual classroom using Zoom video conferencing software.

To access the course, delegates must join the course using a link provided. However, they will need a computer or laptop with a screen, camera, microphone and access to the internet to attend this course online.

Delegates can still interact as they would in the classroom and are provided with a downloadable digital copy of the course book. The final exam is completed online.

Benefits of the Health and Safety Awareness Course

• Helps to implement a positive health and safety culture among the workforce
• CITB Site Safety Plus accredited
• Endorsed by BuildUK
• Helps to protect your business and employees
• You will achieve a highly recognised qualification, which is valid for five years

Course Content

The economic connotations of a dangerous working environment

Accidents, facts and figures, causes of fatality.

A company director’s responsibilities relating to health and safety

Getting it right, encouraging a positive health and safety attitude, safety culture and behavioural safety.

Being aware of the need to analyse your legal duties

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, fees for intervention, management liability, legal aid and related legislation. Consider how their decisions affect the health and safety of the company.

Plan, Deliver, Monitor and Review

Health and safety management, monitoring health and safety. Locating and using competent health and safety assistance and the limitations of using assistance.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations and duty-holder roles apply.

CDM, definitions, and the construction phase plan.

Putting people to work safely; the principles and importance of risk assessments.

Consider how their decisions affect the health and safety of the company.

Safety leadership action plan, compliance checklist.

Final Exam

To complete the CITB Directors Role for Health and Safety course, delegates must show that they are partaking in the classroom discussion with the trainer and other delegates. They must also pass the final multiple-choice written exam to qualify.

Related Content

• CITB courses
• IOSH courses
• NEBOSH courses
• Construction NVQ
• Construction & Engineering courses
• Site Management courses
• Health and safety for managers is essential
• The HSE target smaller building sites
• The importance of safety on construction sites
• Fire safety on construction sites
• Is your construction site hazardous to health?
• Planning and managing construction sites safely
• Measures for safe construction site traffic control
• The dangers of scaffolding have to be managed
• Play a bigger role in managing H&S in construction

For short courses a completion certificate is available at the end of the course. You can screenshot this or print it out to confirm completion of the training.

For accredited courses a certificate will be sent directly to you from the appropriate awarding body.

To join online courses, delegates have to log in via a link provided through a computer or laptop with a camera, screen, microphone and access to the internet.

Connection quality is the responsibility of the delegate. If you have any issues connecting to zoom please visit Zoom's System Requirements for PC, Mac, and Linux here.

E-learning and Online (Instructor-led) training is more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective.

Short online courses also help employers to demonstrate that they have fulfilled their legal duties to ensure their personnel have been adequately trained.

Once the courses have been completed, a confirmation of results can be saved or printed as evidence. This can then be kept on record as evidence of suitable training.

You will instantly receive a confirmation email with your order details and your course login details will follow within one business working day.

Please note that course bookings can not be processed outside of normal working hours, over weekends or on bank holidays and will be processed the next business working day.

Step 1

Click the 'Buy' or 'Add to cart' button and you will be taken to our payment/booking page where you can choose to pay online now using a debit/credit card or you can pay later by invoice.

Step 2

Once you have paid for your course(s), you will receive an email from our team advising how to begin your training.

Step 3

You will be provided with a username and password which will enable you to access the e-learning portal. Login to start your course, once you have completed and passed the course, you will be able to download and print your certificate straight away.

3B Training deliver world class Health & Safety training courses in venues across the UK,
online over Zoom and at client’s addresses. They also offer a variety of National Vocational
Qualifications (NVQs) and e-learning courses.

Envico Limited is an independent intermediary partnering with 3B Training. Envico is not accredited by or associated with the CITB or any other examination body or institution in any way. All courses advertised on this website are advertised and delivered by independent and established accredited or approved training providers.