New road and street works are everywhere across the UK, keeping our roads safe and traffic moving. In addition, they play a significant role in the supply chain to keep deliveries and haulage moving and maintain our constant supply of living basics like gas and electricity. However, new road and street works can be dangerous to the untrained operative and those working and walking around them, especially hot lay tarmac. This kind of asphalt work is no trivial pursuit, with toxic fumes and temperatures way above boiling to contend with. As such, with so much reliance on quality, time, and safety of our roads and infrastructure, the works are subject to legislation that provides a compulsory framework for new roads and street works activities.
The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA) sets out objectives to:
With a mix of practical, video, and classroom-based exercises and tutorials, Learners will cover legislative and administrative knowledge and awareness while taking part in practical tuition, focusing on excavation and reinstatement of materials throughout.
The course reflects national standards and industry best practices and is fully accredited in line with regulations. In addition, choose to learn with Totally Training, Learners benefit from training in our custom-built training facilities and customer-first approach to how we do business.
Our occupationally and technically-experienced instructors and assessors will assess learners in this five-day course, awarding successful learners a certificate for each of the eight units included. In addition, various combinations of the units will lead to a full Street Works qualification, for which a Street Works Qualification Register (SWQR) Card will be awarded.
This training is essential for operatives and supervisors to learn the legislative framework, practical actions they must take, safety principles and more. In addition, learners will review legal requirements, ensure safety compliance, and understand procedures and appropriate documentation and classifications.
The course content includes:
At the end of the training, successful delegates will:
Once the delegate has their course awarding body certificate, Totally Training will send off for their SWQR card.
This course certification is for operatives and supervisors who carry out excavation and reinstatement of various materials and/or supervision as part of their job in street works.
This five-day comprehensive course assesses delegates to understand the challenges, processes and protocols of New Road and Street Works operations and regulations.
At Totally Training, quality and support to our learners is priority. Totally Training provide a dedicated service to Our Clients.
Totally Training are a leading provider of health, safety, environmental and technical theory and practical training and assessment services, covering a wide range of industry sectors, working with 100s of organisations to provide quality written and delivered courses.
Totally Training Instructors and Assessors are fully qualified and occupationally experienced and competent from industry-specific backgrounds to deliver Our qualifications, traveling nationwide to provide necessary support at all times.
Our occupationally experienced NRSWA Street Works instructors and assessors have successfully trained over 10,000 learners across the NRSWA Street Works training category. Delivering courses at our nationwide, industry-leading and accredited training centres and offering the very best of training standards and quality assurance.
We have hundreds of public dates and locations nationally for NRSWA Street Works Training, or can offer dedicated training for specific requirements such as on-site groups. Whatever you need, our training services help bring together the optimum mix of solutions to ensure you can apply the hierarchy of risk control most effectively.
This course has practical elements, so Learners must inform their trainer if they have any serious health issues, physical problems, special considerations or are taking any medication, which may create difficulties in any training elements.
To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07950 580 260 or email training@totally.training
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