We specialise in providing both on-site training and courses delivered at our purpose designed training centre in Middlewich, Cheshire for this N714 Safety at Street and Road Works course. The training is delivered using a mixture of both classroom based tutorial and practical testing and a final course assessment.
Aims and Objectives
To provide the practical skills and safety knowledge necessary for candidates to correctly prepare and safely arrange for Signing, Guarding & Lighting, ensuring safety at road and street works.
Delegate Eligibility – Entry Requirements
This course is designed for candidates of all abilities. We can assist candidates with any learning difficulties or where English may not be their first language, please mention when booking a course.
Course Duration
1 day for up to 8 Candidates : 1 Instructor
Course Content
- Responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and other relevant legislation and guidelines
- New roads & street works act 1991 and ACOP
- Chapter 8 of the DOT traffic signs manual
- Basic principals for safe street works
- Pre operational equipment checks
- Prepare work area
- Site layout, equipment needed, sign lighting & reflectorisation
- Traffic control, foot ways, prepare 30mph carriageways, 40mph carriageways & dual carriageways
- Working near pedestrian crossings, road junctions, level crossings, and roundabouts and other layouts e.g. T junctions
- End of shift checks
Certification & Validation
This course can be registered with our awarding body NPORS or accredited by us Kentra Training. We are a registered training provider and our cards are suitable for the HSE and insurances.
So candidates successfully completing this course will receive one of the following:
- Kentra Training course validation and plastic (credit card size) ID card
- NPORS registration and plastic ID card N714 Safety at Street and Road Works
If NPORS is required we will need to notify them prior to the course, so please mention this when booking.
Our instructor will take the candidates picture on the day of training, which will appear on their ID cards.
The technical bit…
Legality
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) state that The law requires: All work associated with establishing, altering, maintaining and removing static traffic management systems needs to be undertaken in ways that ensure the health and safety of both workers and road users. In addition to highway legislation such as the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002 (TSRGD), clients and their agents, designers, contractors and workers need to ensure that they comply with their duties under health and safety law.
This requires that duty holders assess work-related risks and eliminate, reduce and control significant risks, so far as is reasonably practicable.
Course Requirements
This course can be delivered on-site where we come to you and use your equipment, alternatively you can come to us and we will provide everything you need for the course.
On-site Course Requirements
Prior to coming on the course it is recommended that the candidates study the ‘Safety at Street Works & Road Works’ a code of practice booklet available from The Stationery Office, on-site resources.
On the day of training you will need:
A room for the theory session.
A safe area for the practical session – Equipment required includes:
- A full set of temporary signing and guarding for works on a road or foot way.
- 2 x Roadwork’s,
- 2 x End,
- 2 x Road Narrows,
- 2 x Keep Left / Right,
- 4 x Barrier Cones,
- 8 x Rails,
- 24 Cones,
- 1 x Stop & Go or Temporary Traffic signals.
- Delegates will be expected to provide their own PPE.
- Candidates will need to know their own date of birth and National Insurance number.
Training Centre Course Requirements
For courses conducted at our training centre, in Middlewich we provide all the equipment, tools and supplies required to conduct the course.
- Delegates will need to be suitably dressed to use the equipment, and may wish to bring their own PPE to use.
- Candidates will need to know their own dates of birth and National Insurance number.
Courses at our training centre can be run as open training programmes, meaning that if you only have one or two candidates, you can join a course with other delegates on a mutually convenient day.
How can we help
At Kentra Training Centre we are proud to offer a wide range of training courses and cater to the bespoke needs of our clients. Let us know when you need and how we can help you, and be sure of a friendly welcome from the team.
We wouldn’t go so far as to say the office staff are a fountain of all knowledge, but they know everything there is to know about our courses, and what they don’t know they can usually find out. You can message us through the website CLICK HERE, or give us a call on 01606 832 556.
Don’t worry, there’s no obligation, and no strings attached when you make an enquiry. We’ll try our best to point you in the right direction!
We look forward to helping you with this N714 Safety at Street and Road Works course or any of your training needs.
The Kentra Training Team
More details on the NPORS Safety at Street and Roadworks Training you can also check out our other blogs:
N714 Official NPORS Safety at Street and Roadworks Training
Safety at Street and Roadworks – our A 2 Z of Safety Training
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