CITB Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS)

This one-day interactive course has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment with the aim of recognising directors’ duties of care and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.

The course is completed in person at your location or at our training centre (contact us to arrange a suitable venue). The training will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety. Group exercises throughout the day will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum.

The course aims to help directors to:

Entry requirements

This course has been developed for 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, and therefore this should be considered before enrolling delegates on to this course.

Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive) are:

Examples of relevant roles (not exhaustive) are:

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:

Assessment

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.

Certification

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

Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date.