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Course Details

This course is for all construction site and local authority workers (including apprentices and trainees) to ensure that they have a fundamental knowledge of health and safety.

Essentially any worker who alters, interferes or changes a building must in time have a Safe Pass card. The requirement applied to all workers in the construction sector on 01/06/03 last. Cards must be refreshed every four years.

Participants can attend the nifast Safe Pass course at either of our training centres in Dublin and Cork. This programme can also be conducted on an in-company basis at clients` premises or other venue. As nifast must register participants with FAS two weeks prior to attending the course it is advisable to book early (per person cost of €19).

Objectives

• Increase safety awareness within the construction industry
• Ensure that all site personnel undergo basic health and safety awareness training
• Supply all participants with a FÁS Safe Pass Registration card, indicating that the holder has attended a formal course in health and safety awareness 

Course Programme

• Promoting a Safety Culture
• Duties & Responsibilities at work
• Accident Reporting & Prevention
• Working at Heights
• Evacuations & Confined Spaces
• Working with Electricity and overhead services · Personal Protective Equipment
• Use of hand held equipment, tools and machinery
• Safe use of vehicles
• Noise & Vibration
• Manual Handling
• Health & Hygiene

English is the language in which training is delivered and participants must have a good command of the English language. If participants wish to bring an interpreter they may do so but prior notice must be given to nifast.

Please let us know if participants have any specific learner requirements.

Who should attend?
Essentially any worker who alters, interferes or changes a building

Pre-Course Requirements
Participants must have a good working knowledge of the English language. Courses can be delivered in languages other than English through prior arrangement with nifast and where all participants on the same course speak the same language.

Assessment/Certification
Participants complete a written exam.
On successful completion of the exam participants will be issued with a FÁS Safe Pass card.

Please Note

• All participants must arrive at 8.15 am sharp for course registration
• Delegates who arrive late will unfortunately not be permitted to complete the programme
• All participants must bring a passport photo of themselves for their Safe Pass Registration card