Health and Safety Awareness (HSA)

Course Summary

The Health and Safety Awareness (HSA) course highlights potential hazards when working on site and provides practical advice on keeping yourself and your colleagues safe. It covers your individual and employer’s responsibilities, including what you can do if you think anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk. This course provides health and safety awareness and is endorsed by Build UK as standard training for all operatives on site.

Course Details

• Workers' individual responsibilities for their own safety and the safety of others
• Typical construction hazards and how these are controlled
• How everyone can help achieve better practical standards of safety on site
• Legal requirements and liabilities
• Understand the need to prevent accidents

• Have an understanding of health and safety law
• Identify how their role fits into the control and management of the site
• Understand the need for risk assessments and method statements
• Appreciate the need to perform safely and to stop and ask for advice if not sure
• Report unsafe acts to prevent an accident