Course Overview
This one day interactive course has been developed for site supervisors/managers with the aim of providing candidates with an introduction to environmental issues on construction sites.
Who should attend
This CITB SEATS course is for those who have or are about to gain supervisory or management responsibilities. It will provide supervisors with a broad understanding of the environment, the issues construction sites face, and how to counter those challenges.
Course outline
- Best practice techniques and legal compliance
- The environment and why it matters
- Environmental management systems
- Waste management
- How to be a good neighbour: statutory nuisance,communication
- Archaeology and heritage
- Energy and resources
- Being a responsible contractor.
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Supervise and protect the environment using legal provisions
- Protect the eco-system – working with the relationships and interactions between animals, plants (flora and fauna) and organisms and their environment
- Follow environmental management systems and processes to mitigate ecological damage
- Play their part in reducing statutory nuisance and disturbance to neighbours
- Manage the impact that archaeology and heritage can have on construction
- Control water consumption and reduce the impact construction has on natural water supplies
- Implement control measures to prevent the pollution of watercourses
- Identify ethically sourced timber through the chain-of-custody entering site
- Identify, control and manage contamination on brownfield sites
- Classify, segregate and properly dispose of waste materials