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CITB Temporary Works Co-ordinator Training Course (TWCTC) - 2 Day

This course is for those on site with responsibility for managing all forms of temporary works. It is designed to give confidence to senior management and those who engage with contractors, that candidates have reached an assessed standard of knowledge.

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CITB Temporary Works Co-ordinator Training Course (TWCTC) – 2 Day

Course Cost £530 +VAT
Duration 2 DAYS
  • Course designed for managing temporary works, ensuring candidates reach assessed knowledge standard.
  • Confidence for senior management and contractor engagement.
  • Entry requirements: experience in managing temporary works, good English understanding.
  • Learners expected to know relevant health and safety legislation.
  • Focus on health and safety legislation and its relevance to temporary works.
  • Understanding of health and safety principles, risk management, design considerations.
  • Previous certificates in construction health and safety supervision or management beneficial.
  • Scope covers duties of TWC, key roles, BS 5975:2019, documents, legislation, 4Cs, risk management.
  • UK residency required for CITB course attendance.

Overview

This course is designed for individuals responsible for managing temporary works, aiming to provide senior management and contractor-engaging personnel with a verified level of knowledge. Learners should have experience in temporary works management and a good grasp of English. The course covers health and safety legislation, risk management, design considerations, inspection, and monitoring requirements. It emphasizes the importance of health and safety principles in temporary works, focusing on legislation like CDM 2015. Completion of related CITB courses is beneficial but not mandatory. The course explores key roles, BS 5975:2019, documents, legislation, and the 4Cs (communication, coordination, cooperation, competence).

Who should attend

Senior Management, Contractors

Course Content

This course is for those on site with responsibility for managing all forms of temporary works. It is designed to give confidence to senior management and those who engage with contractors, that candidates have reached an assessed standard of knowledge.

Please Note:Attendance of a course does not confer competence as a TWC or TWS. The appointment of a TWC or TWS rests with the DI who should be looking at a combination of the candidate’s skills, knowledge and experience.

Entry requirements

Candidates should have experience in being responsible for managing all forms of temporary works and a good understanding of spoken and written English

Learners are expected to have a working knowledge of the following legislation:

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
• The Personal Protective Equipment Regulations 1992
• The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• The Work at Height Regulations 2005.

A key issue for temporary works is health and safety, so learners need to be prepared to discuss how health and safety legislation is relevant to temporary works, as well as which Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) and guidance notes may assist or contribute to safe practices in temporary works.

Learners need to be prepared to discuss and explore all the core health and safety factors that are integrated into temporary works processes at all stages of a project, from initiation to closure. They will need to have working knowledge of all associated legislation, specifically the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 in terms of its intention and compliance. Learners must also have a thorough understanding of health and safety principles and understand the importance of risk management, design considerations, inspection and testing and recording and monitoring requirements.

Learners who have achieved a certificate approved against the Health and Safety in Construction Site Supervision standard (such as SSSTS or SSSTS-R) or the Health and Safety in Construction Site Management standard (such as SMSTS or SMSTS-R), will have gained the knowledge to meet these expectations. This is not a mandatory pre-requisite, but learners with these achievements will benefit from having this knowledge before attending the course.

To further support learners, CITB has created a Temporary works awareness eLearning which provides a foundation of the points that will be expanded on in this course. It explores how health and safety legislation plays a pivotal role in temporary works, and how documents which are common to more generic construction activities are a useful aid for planning and the ongoing management and monitoring of temporary works.

Learners may also find it helpful to complete the Temporary works awareness eLearning provided by CITB, which is free to access here.

Scope:

The TWCTC will cover the following topics:

  • the need for and duties of a TWC
  • the other key roles involved in temporary works
  • the use of BS 5975:2019 in relation to the role
  • typical documents used in temporary works
  • other legislation and guidance that interact with temporary works
  • the importance of the 4Cs: communication, co-ordination, co-operation and competence
  • the need for risk management

Examination 

Course Review / Closure

Please note you are required to be a UK resident to attend all CITB courses.

CITB Temporary Works Training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Northampton, Gloucestershire and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.

Who Should Attend

Senior Management, Contractors
Course Cost £530 +VAT
Duration 2 DAYS

Experts in Construction and Infrastructure Training

1000+

Training courses available

250000+

Course hours completed

50+

Expert trainers

CITB, APS, IEMA

Accreditation training centres

12

Accreditations

Testimonials

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The course was exceptional, well run in terms of delivery of information, IT online course but seamless. Very interesting examples of temporary works failures applicable to the businesses we worked in. Break out activities / group examples worked very well and were again well managed by the trainer. Fantastic course, I will recommend to others! Best course I have attended in years!

CITB Temporary Works Co-Ordinator

Black & Veatch

The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

Contract Management

The Pension Regulator

The training was very interactive and the tutor was excellent in engaging every course attendee and ensuring that the course content was tailored to each attendees Organisation and Company requirements

CITB Temporary Works Awareness

Kone – H &S Advisor

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