CITB SITE ENVIRONMENTAL Awareness Training (SEATS)

The environmental impacts of building, construction and civil engineering are far-reaching and heavily regulated. Poor, unregulated application of activities can have devastating effects on the environment, health and safety. As professionals, we need to understand the impacts we make, the regulations that are in place and why it is crucial to be compliant with the rules in place. 

This Site Environmental Awareness Training course covers relevant legislation and other aspects that affect the environment in the building, construction and civil engineering industries. It will provide learners with a broad understanding of the environment and the issues construction sites’ face, with the core aim to enable them to understand:

• The environmental impacts of construction processes
• The relevant legislation
• How to achieve compliance
• Best practice techniques to use on-site

Primarily classroom-based exercises and tutorials featuring best practice sharing, group work, and case studies, learners will cover legislative and practical knowledge and awareness of the environmental impact and legislation.

The course reflects national standards and industry best practices and is fully accredited in line with regulations. In addition, learn with Totally Training and delegates benefit from our custom-built training facilities and customer-first approach.

Our occupationally and technically-experienced tutors will coach and assess learnwers throughout this one-day course.

This training is essential to learning the environmental impact we make in our industry. Learners will review legal requirements, learn safety measures, ensure safety compliance, and understand procedures.

The course will take learners through the fundamentals of:

• The importance of the environment relating to these industries
• Environmental Management Systems
• Ecology and how it is directly related to their work
• Contaminated land, including how it happens the regulations to prevent it
• Waste Management systems and procedures
• Pollution and Water Management systems and procedures
• Being neighbourly, working with the people and systems around us and not against them
• Energy and resources, including how they can use them best

On completing this Site Environmental Awareness Training (SEATS) course, learners will understand and be able to:

• Supervise and protect the environment using legal provisions
• Protect the eco-system – working with the relationships and interactions between animals, plants (flora and fauna) and organisms and their environment
• Follow environmental management systems and processes to mitigate ecological damage
• Play their part in reducing statutory nuisance and disturbance to neighbours
• Manage the impact that archaeology and heritage can have on construction
• Control water consumption and reduce the impact construction has on natural water supplies
• Implement control measures to prevent the pollution of watercourses
• Identify ethically sourced timber through the chain-of-custody entering site
• Identify, control and manage contamination on brownfield sites
• Classify, segregate and properly dispose of waste materials

This CITB SEATS course is for those who have or are about to gain supervisory or management responsibilities. It will provide supervisors with a broad understanding of the environment, the issues construction sites face, and how to counter those challenges.

This one-day course trains delegates to understand the challenges, processes and fundamentals of environmental care, legislation and regulations on completion and certification.

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 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 CITB Site Safety Plus course tutors have successfully trained over 10,000 Learners across a variety of industry-related sectors. Totally Training deliver 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 CITB Site Safety Plus training courses, 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. 

For training held at your own location, please ensure that the classroom you make available has a 240v power supply and is a suitable size for the number of learners attending. 

Learners must inform their tutor if they have any serious health issues, physical problems, special considerations or are taking any medication, which may create difficulties in undertaking elements of this training course so that we can make adjustments where possible.

To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07763 854 325 or email training@totally.training