What's New in Construction Safety Certification?

Obviously, as people involved in the Construction industry, Construction Safety Certification is hugely important to all of us. If you don't have the appropriate certificates, and therefore training, you put yourself and your colleagues at risk. Indeed, without Construction Safety Certification, you put everyone involved at risk - not just from accidents, but from litigation resulting in poor Safety procedures. As such, there are many institutions out there willing to offer training. Thankfully, as long as you go through an accredited body, the syllabus remains the same. Here we're going over the things you need to familiarise yourself with in order to pass your course.

The initial Construction Safety Certification covers the following areas. Having an awareness of these, much like any other kind of learning, will aid you to complete the course with as little hassle as possible. Ultimately, this will allow you to get on with the career you love: Construction.

Knowledge and understanding of H&S is essential on any site. You will be given a basic foundation in H&S as well as being given the tools to organise any site's Safety requirements. You simply MUST adhere to risk assessment laws. Failure to do so will result in your site being closed. Control is also an important aspect of the course, as is monitoring, and assessment. Finally, you'll go through the process of investigation, recording and reporting of incidents on site. This may not seem immediately useful, but I can assure you that if you don't know how to report an incident, you are putting the entire site at risk. Very often a victim will look to seek compensation from a site after an accident. Failure to properly report this results in an easy way for them to do so.

The second, and larger section of the Construction Safety Certification course starts with the law and management and law behind working on a site. This isn't as intimidating as you might think. We're not lawyers, so the course only covers aspects of building site management which apply to us. Construction site hazards and control is probably the most important element of any Construction Safety Certification course, as it helps you identify any potential hazards before they arrive. Prevention is better than cure, as they say.

Then Construction Safety Certification covers what many will already have a good knowledge of. The final part of the course covers aspects of day-to-day Construction worker health and Safety that form the basis of our Construction work. When people on site move around, whether by vehicle or on foot, they make themselves open to harm. It's as simple as that. The same when they handle electricity and extreme heat. This is still a very important section of any Construction Safety Certification, as it's the most applicable to your every on-site work.

From there, the Construction Safety Certification course will enter realms less common, but still important if you are on any specific site. Chemical and biological hazard awareness, working at heights, and excavation work all fall into this category, as well as demolitions and confined spaces. While many see this as a little superfluous, these are all essential parts of any course. It saves live, so consider it on a daily basis.