HSE - New Roads and Street Works

Course Code	M/H/005
Course Aims	This course is designed for all personnel employed by local authorities, utilities and their contractors for the purpose of any road works in the highway
Suitable For	Supervisor
Duration	5 days
Location	Corby
Accrediting Body	City & Guilds
Course RRP (£)	POA

Course Outline 

Understand the safety implications of carrying out streetworks, with particular reference to the protection of persons engaged on the works and avoidance of danger to the general public
Appreciate the need to maintain the free movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the site of the works to comply with the restrictions imposed by the works and the adoption of safe working practices
Identify the correct layout of appropriate signs, barriers, lamps, warning notices etc in compliance with the relevant advisory documents
Recognise conditions that may necessitate the introduction of special measures such as the installation of portable traffic signals, traffic diversion, road closure etc
Monitor and maintain the correct operation of portable traffic signals and reposition equipment as work proceeds

• Unit 001—Location & avoidance of underground Services.
• Unit 010— Monitoring, signing, lighting & guarding.
• Unit 011— Monitoring excavation in the highway.
• Unit 012— Monitoring reinstatement & compaction of backfill materials.
• Unit 013— Monitoring reinstatement of non– bituminous sub-base & road– base materials.
• Unit 014—Monitoring laying practices and reinstatement of cold lay bituminous materials.
• Unit 016— Monitoring reinstatement of modular surfaces & concrete footways.