Got my CITB Health & Safety test today

[Welly]

I've got to renew my 'CSCS' constructions skills 5-yearly safety card today and undertake an exam containing 50 questions from a possible 542 questions which have to be studied for. It's a scheme where ALL workers/visitors to a construction site have to have passed a test relevant to their trade works and hold a photo-card style ID to prove. Without it you can't be on site.

Although I don't carry out site works I do have to visit site as a 'Profeshunal' and am expected to have a knowledge of Health & Safety legislation including Accident Prevention and Reporting, Manual Handling, Working at Height, Emergency Procedures, Control of Hazardous Substances, Electrical Safety and tools, Fire Safety, Signs and Signals, Site Transport Plant and Machinery, Excavations and Confined spaces, Demolition, Plumbing and Gas, Highway Works and Supervisory & Management............phew.

I studied on the plane to and from holiday and trying to do a bit today but just found a section of the study quide I missed

Wish me luck Forum Buddies, it's at 16:30........

[puggy]

Good luck with the test welly , shall be thinking about you come half four,
well i'll be thinking of something , probably





get the idea you still not forgiven for no piccies

[steve_earwig]

Tell them the examination's failed your risk assessment so you're not doing it. Sheesh, you don't get this sort of bollocks here (maybe that's why I meet so many people with missing digits ). Still, that'll all change when they join the E "politicians get rich quick while everyone else suffers" U.

[DaiRees]

Good luck Welly

[Welly]

Contruction in the UK has been cleaned up a lot over the last 5 years or so and as an example Step Ladders are NOT permitted on site rather we have to use a small mobile scaffold tower thing (which you have to be trained and certified to build) and towards the end of the job where everyone is trying to finish detailed work above ceilings in partitioned rooms etc it becomes a bit like robot wars actually I'm yet to see a site where they don't eventually allow Step Ladders as it becomes impossible to reach some things without them. Steps are seen as too unstable resulting in falls etc.

High Viz vests, safety boots, Hard Hat and Gloves are mandatory, as are safety spectacles becoming more recently, Risk assessments, Method Statements, Permits to work, COSHH assessments, Inductions, training, all make for an 'interesting' time incidentally the cost of all this gets added to the job ultimately but what price for someone's safety eh?

One day all construction workers will be wearing inflatable bubble suits or something

[steve_earwig]

When will they announce that getting out of bed in the morning is too dangerous?

High Viz vests, safety boots, Hard Hat and Gloves are mandatory, as are safety spectacles becoming more recently, Risk assessments, Method Statements, Permits to work, COSHH assessments, Inductions, training, all make for an 'interesting' time

You have to do all that before turning your pc on?

One day all construction workers will be wearing inflatable bubble suits or something

Nah, replaced by robots.

[jasper5]

Good luck Welly!

I went to my fleet customer this morning to fix a broken rear door catch on a van, I parked my van behind the faulty van to get at my tools, 2 minutes later the health and safety officer came over and told me that I hadn't signed onto the site and that I was parked too close to the emergency exit....I drove both vans outside and fixed it there!

[teamster1975]

Good luck Welly

Step Ladders are NOT permitted on site

Reminds me of that "no win no fee" advert where the plonker said that he fell of his ladder because he'd been given the wrong one
I swear some people shoudn't be allowed out the front door, let alone near a building site! Do people not have common sense any more?!?!

[Welly]

health and safety officer.........I drove both vans outside and fixed it there!

Hehe! nice one.

On sites the same sort of chap wanders around ALL DAY looking for breaches and dishing out Yellow or Red cards to offenders.

Forgot another one too - Mobile Phones are banned in all but designated 'safe' areas

Oh and portable radios have been banned for years now (dangerous)

[teamster1975]

Glad I'm not in the building game, what a lot of bollox

[steve_earwig]

Oh and portable radios have been banned for years now (dangerous)

Oh ffs What colour card do you get for smiling?

[Welly]

Glad I'm not in the building game, what a lot of bollox

Well I think you'll find loads of bollox like this in all occupations now

Years ago if you had a minor accident at work or in the car you'd brush yourself down, call yourself a stupid twat, and carry on. Now though everyone thinks..."who's to blame?" above all else

The UK rules!!

What colour card do you get for smiling?

Sorry, smiling results in the worker's pay being docked through the "having too good a time at work" regulations 2006.

[steve_earwig]

Compensation culture It came from the US. Torta means cake here.

Anyway, I've got my brother turning up any minute so I'll bid you good luck while I still have the chance... Not that you'll need it of course - just give the most preposterous answer you can think of and you're bound to be right.

[Welly]

Cheers, better get revising now anyway

[Doggy]

Good luck Welly...

Make sure you park the volvo in a prominent position, preferably without the T5 badge(s) on show.

Check pens & pencils are not excessively sharp & comply with COSHH

If all else fails, quote some bits from the volvo manual