CITB Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS)

Who Should Attend?

The Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) is a one-day interactive course that has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment, with the aim of recognising director's duties of care and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.

The course will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety.

Site Safety Plus (SSP) Courses

The Site Safety Plus suite of courses provides a range of courses for people seeking to develop their skills in the building, civil engineering and allied industries. Designed from operative to senior manager level, they provide the skills you need to progress through the construction industry, from the one day Health and Safety Awareness course to the five-day Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS). We also offer refresher courses so that workers are always kept up to date with the latest techniques and industry practice to be safe whilst on the job.

DRHS Course Overview

The Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) is a one-day interactive course that has been designed for company directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment, with the aim of recognising director's duties of care and the implications of non-compliance with health and safety legislation.

The course will provide a summary of how to promote a positive organisational culture for health and safety.

Group exercises throughout the day will give delegates the opportunity to discuss their thoughts about health and safety and their responsibilities in an open forum.

The DRHS course is endorsed by Build UK as the standard training for all senior managers (as specified above) and company directors.

SEATS Aims and Objectives

To help directors to:

• recognise the moral, economic and legal costs and implications of decisions made in the boardroom that may make their business liable
• understand the significance of strategic management of risks
• appreciate the range of consequences from failing to manage health and safety effectively
• understand the importance of competent duty holders, and the significance of their cooperation, communication and coordination of health and safety on projects
• recognise the need to appoint competent health and safety assistance, and the limitations of such an appointment
• identify the basic tools to introduce a proactive health and safety culture into an organisation, and the benefits of this approach.

Entry requirements

This course has been developed for directors and senior managers active in a health and safety strategic role in the built environment from any organisational size in construction, civil engineering or allied trades, and therefore this should be considered before enrolling delegates on to this course.

Delegates must be able to demonstrate the following:

1) EITHER previously completed a CITB Director’s Role for Health and Safety course 

OR 

working knowledge of the following health and safety legislation;

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 

• Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 

• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015 

• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. 

2) AND Completion of the pre-course eLearning (accessed via http://ecourses.citb.co.uk). Successful completion of this component generates a digital certificate, a copy of which must be sent to us at least 24 hours before the start of the course.

Delegates should hold, or be about to hold, the role of director or strategic senior role.

Delegates must be competent in English at senior management level.

Learner Numbers

The minimum number of delegates per course is 4.  The maximum number of delegates per course is 12.  These are stipulated by the awarding body and are not subject to appeal.

Assessment

Assessment will be by an exam paper, the completion of 3 mandatory course exercises, the completion of a personal review and a trainer review.

The examination demonstrates to external bodies that the certificate is only awarded to successful delegates following both an assessment and examination. Delegates are expected to be interactive during the course.

Exam Details

The examination paper is compulsory and is split in 2 parts, selected by CITB, covering all aspects of the course. Part A consists of 10 questions based on the course and Part B consists of 10 questions associated with a case study.

The examination pass mark is 80% (24 out of 30).

The exam paper forms part of the overall assessment as to whether or not the delegate has successfully achieved the Director's Role for Health and Safety (DRHS) certificate and demonstrated knowledge of health and safety management responsibilities and liabilities.

The examination lasts for 35 minutes and must be completed within this time.

Delegates are permitted to use the Book A - Legal and management: Construction site safety - The comprehensive guide (GE700As) for the last fifteen minutes of the examination.

Resit Procedure

Where a delegate has passed the trainer's review and achieved at least 70% (21 out of 30) in the examination, then they may re-sit the examination.  This can either be on the same day or by resitting the exam by attending another course on the final day within a 90 day period (the delegate is not obliged to re-do the course).

The training provider must make arrangements with the delegate and ensure that the same examination paper is not used twice.

Subsequent arrangements will be at the delegate’s own expense.

Should a delegate fail the re-sit, they will be offered to take the full DRHS course again.

When a delegate scores less than 67% (20 correct answers out of 30) in the final examination, the delegate must attend the full DRHS course again before they are allowed to re-sit the examination.

Certification

You will receive a CITB DRHS digital PDF Certificate valid for 5 years.

CITB Online Card Checker

https://www.citb.co.uk/cards-testing/online-card-checker/

CITB Site Safety Plus certificates awarded will be visible on the online card checker once the course paperwork has been processed.