Description
Once completed the NRSWA Unit S1 course, successful candidates are certified to supervise the setting out of traffic lights, signs, cones and barriers in compliance with the NRSW Act. Assessment is carried out during the course and delegates are also required to complete a question paper. Delegates must also provide evidence from the work place where the assessment is carried out on a simulated site.
* Please note that this course does not certify candidates to undertake the setting out of signing, lighting and guarding. In order to qualify for this students must successfully pass the operative NRSWA Unit 1. *
Objectives
Following successful completion of this NRSWA training delegates will be able to:
- Supervise signing, lighting and guarding of road works as laid down in the safety at street works and road works code of practice
- Supervise the installation of portable traffic signals
- Undertake the assessment for unit S1 monitoring of signing lighting and guarding
Agenda
The NRSWA Unit S1 training session will cover the following: –
- Provide a detailed plan for an intended site, preferably from a real road, showing all distances and dimensions in accordance with the Safety at Streetworks and Road Works Code of Practice.
- Make formative decisions and recommend remedial action from a given plan.
- Observe an operative surveying a work site and record observations and remedial action required from the site plan.
- Observe an operative setting up and taking down a site.
- Record observations made and explain reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with site operations and working practices.
- Explain any remedial action required.
Duration
1 day
Assessment
Assessment is carried out during the course and delegates are also required to complete a question paper. Delegates must also provide evidence from the work place where the assessment is carried out on a simulated site.
* Please note that this course does not certify candidates to undertake the setting out of signing, lighting and guarding. In order to qualify for this students must successfully pass the operative NRSWA Unit 1. *
Who Should Attend?
The NRSWA Unit S1 course is for anyone who wants to be able to supervise others setting up signing, lighting and guarding equipment on highways.
