Details
eLearning course
CPD Credit: 3 hours; Competence/s: 3
Course Delivery Options
Open Course: Available on scheduled dates. Contact cpdtraining@engineersireland.ie or call 01 665 1305, or check our CPD Calendar here.
Course Overview
The Site Visitor Safety Course is intended for consultant engineers and other professionals who are required to visit sites on an occasional basis, but not to undertake construction work. The course familiarises learners with hazards commonly encountered, equips them to protect themselves and others from those hazards, and provides guidance on what to do in a potentially unsafe situation or during an incident onsite.
Course Aim
The aim of the course is to provide a general awareness of health & safety on sites. It is intended to provide industry recognised training that will support the duty of the employer under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 regarding the provision of information, instruction and training to enable employees to carry out their work safely.
Course Content
- Module 1: Identifies the broad categories of site types and describes the general health and safety characteristics of each
- Module 2: Focuses on hazards that visitors are likely to encounter during typical site visits and will provide general guidance on how to avoid or mitigate the risk from those hazards.
- Module 3: Provides guidance on planning your visit to the site. It highlights the importance of assessing the site-specific risks and ensuring you adequately equip yourself to address those risks. The module also provides a general guidance for when you are on site and what to do if you observe an inadequately controlled hazard or encounter and incident.
- The Course Assessment involves a series of questions based on the course content and the learning outcomes.
Learning Outcomes/Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates should be able to:
- Recognise the different types of sites and the general safety characteristics of each.
- Recognise common hazards on various site types
- Identify common controls typically implemented to mitigate those hazards
- Implement methods to protect yourself from harm by those hazards
- Obtain appropriate information to enable you to effectively plan a site visit
- Assess the hazards you are most likely to be exposed to an prepare appropriately
- Know what to do if you see something unsafe or encounter an accident while onsite.
Who Should Attend?
This course is beneficial for engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, assigned certifiers, PSDP’s, consultants, clients, or any person that may be required to occasionally attend sites as part of their occupational responsibilities, but who would not meet the definition of construction workers.
Trainers
Ronan McElwain is an Associate Director of T.J. O’Connor & Associates. He is a Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland and an Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) Registered Professional Consulting Engineer. He is also a Chartered Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers. Ronan has over 20 years’ experience in the planning and design of major structural and civil engineering projects. Ronan completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Health & Safety in Construction in 2011. He is a member of the ACEI/Engineers Ireland Joint Committee on Health and Safety in Construction and is a presenter of the ACEI/Engineers Ireland’s ‘Designing for Safety in Construction’ and ‘Project Supervisor Construction Process’ CPD Training Courses.
Arran Ankers is an Associate at GARLAND, where he leads the Safety Team and manages a portfolio of public and private sector clients. In addition to administering Project Supervisor Design Process (PSDP) duties, he provides Client Safety Advisory services, acts as a Safety Auditor and Trainer, and undertakes safety compliance investigations for legal clients.
Arran’s current PSDP portfolio includes complex projects such as hyperscale data centres, tunnels, large-scale residential schemes, high-rise developments, commercial buildings, transmission substations, schools, and hospitals, with project values of up to €500 million.
Prior to joining GARLAND, Arran gained extensive international experience working in senior safety roles across three continents. He previously represented multinational construction management organisations on major government-funded infrastructure projects, including roads programmes and bored tunnel metro systems with values exceeding $1 billion. During this time, he regularly contributed to a Pre-Consultation Panel established by a Canadian safety regulator to develop regulations that were later enacted to support safe underground construction.
Arran holds an honours Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business in Safety, Health and Welfare at Work. He is currently a presenter on the ACEI/EI Project Supervisor Design Process and Designing for Safety in Construction programmes, both accredited by Technological University Dublin.
Please contact the CPD Training Team for further information on scheduled course dates.