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SMSTS qualification is a essential part of site safety management training.
The Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) is accredited by the Construction Industry Training Board
(CITB) and is nationally recognised within the construction industry.
Anyone who is acting in a supervisory or management role on a construction site is legally required to undertake health and safety training to help create a safe working environment. Being accredited by the CITB, the SMSTS training scheme is one of the best training schemes available, and experts believe it should be the training scheme of choice for all site managers.
The SMSTS training scheme only lasts for five days. This is a very short duration when compared to similar training schemes. However within these five days, delegates will learn all the basics of health and safety training as well as ensuring delegates know how to comply with all laws and legislations. Within the training, particular focus is paid to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. This is because there are strict rules in place and it should be studied by anyone within a supervisory role. Once the course has been completed, the certificate lasts for five years, after which a refresher course can be undertaken.
Delegates are required to complete the refresher course before their previous certificate runs out. They must also produce the previous certificate to show they achieved the qualification. Failure to do either of these things could result in having to take the original SMSTS course again. The refresher course is of a much shorter time-scale than the SMSTS original course, lasting just two days instead of five. It is also cheaper than the original course.
Attending the
SMSTS Refresher course ensures that delegates are updated with developments in health and safety legislation.
Health and safety is a continuously changing industry, and a lot changes in five years. This is why the Refresher course is so important to the construction industry. The course is also able to enhance existing managerial skills which are necessary to new legislations. Delegates may also look at recent health and safety case studies which weren't available when the previous course was undertaken.
The SMSTS Refresher course is vital to site management safety and should be taken by anyone who has a management position on site. At the end of the course provides delegates with another five year certificate, which again has to be renewed with a Refresher course.