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These courses provide attendees with the skills and knowledge to perform operative duties to the standards prescribed by City & Guilds in-line with the NRSWA Act 1991. The training is physical with minimal writing (those with reading or writing difficulties will be assisted).

What’s an operative?
Those who carry out the manual excavation and reinstatement in the footpaths and highways.

What training do I need to be an operative?
A NRSWA Street works Course that includes the units for the work you are going to carry out. The 5 day courses combine the units of competence listed below. The most popular courses cover units 1 to 6 & 9.

What do I get from the course? Included in our prices
Successful completion of the course results in you gaining a City & Guild certificate for each unit and a Street works card  Ticket showing your units of competence. The card is currently valid for 5 years. 

The following units are covered:

• 001 – Location & avoidance of underground apparatus
• 002 – Signing, lighting & guarding
• 003 – Excavation in the highway
• 004 – Reinstatement of compaction of backfill materials
• 005 – Reinstatement of sub base & road in non bituminous materials
• 006 – Reinstatement of cold-lay bituminous materials
• 007 – Reinstatement of hot lay bituminous materials (subject to centre may not be included)
• 008 – Reinstatement of concrete slabs (subject to centre may not be included)
• 009 – Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for operatives who physically carry out the work on the roadways and highways.

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**Special Offer on Coventry Nrswa Operative training £550 VAT for Monday 13th Feb ** 

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Course Content

These courses provide delegates with the skills and knowledge to perform supervision duties to the standards prescribed by City & Guilds in-line with the NRSWA Act 1991.

What’s a Supervisor?
Those who are responsible for a site where operatives carryout the manual excavation and reinstatement in the highways.

What training do I need to be a Supervisor?
A NRSWA Street works Course that includes the units for the work you are going to carry out. The 5 day courses combine the units of competence listed below.
The most popular courses cover units 1, 10-14 &16.

What do I get from the course?  All Included in our price
Successful completion of the course results in you gaining a City & Guild certificate for each unit and a Street works card ticket showing your units of competence. The Streetworks card is currently valid for 5 years. 

The following units are covered:

• 001 – Location & avoidance of underground apparatus
• 010 – Monitoring, signing, lighting & guarding
• 011 – Monitoring excavation in the highway
• 012 – Monitoring reinstatement & compaction of backfill layer
• 013 – Monitoring reinstatement of sub & road base in non bituminous material
• 014 – Monitoring reinstatement of bituminous materials
• 015 – Monitoring reinstatement of concrete slabs (subject to centre)
• 016 – Monitoring reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways (subject to centre)

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for delegates who perform supervisory duties over operatives who physically carry out the work on the roadways and highways.

**Special Offer on Coventry Training £525 VAT for Monday 17th October**

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Course Content

To ensure candidates can carry out daily tasks in lighting and guarding systems to enable trainees to take adequate measures to minimise any inconvenience to the general public during the course of street works and to maintain a safe environment for the general public, pedestrians and motor vehicles and persons engaged on the streetworks. 

Note. This course does not certify candidates to supervise the setting out of signing, lighting and guarding. 

What's and Operative?

Operatives are responsible for physically setting up the signing lighting and guarding to comply with the NRSWA act.

At the end of the course delegates must be able to:

• Produce plan of intended site showing position of signs, guarding & traffic signals. Plan must include all relevant distances, sizes and dimensions required.
• Produce list of equipment for intended site
• Demonstrate sequence of setting out the advance signing, safety zones & pedestrian walkways
• Demonstrate positioning, testing, adjusting, commissioning & decommissioning of temporary traffic signals
• Answer a range of questions to demonstrate knowledge of subject
• Conduct activities safely wearing appropriate safety wear
• Provide sufficient evidence of knowledge by way of oral or written questions.

 Evidence from workplace must be signed by a suitably qualified person & returned to the assessment centre for validation before registering candidates. This evidence must contain at least site plans, site job number, description of job, witness testimony & include the use of traffic signals.   

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Course Content

This course will certificate successful candidates to Supervise (monitor) the setting out of traffic lights, signs cones and barriers in compliance with NRSWA.

Note. This course does not certify candidates to undertake the setting out of signing, lighting and guarding.

At the end of the course delegates must be able to :

simple statement from the employer would not be sufficient to infer competence.

• Provide detailed plan for an intended site, preferably form a real road, showing all distances & dimensions in accordance with the Safety at Streetworks & Road Works Code of Practice
• Make formative decisions & recommended remedial action from a given plan
• Observe an operative surveying a work site & record observations and remedial actions required
from the site plan
• Observe an operative setting up and taking down a site
• Record observations make and explain reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with site operations and
working practices
• Explain any remedial action required
• Complete the part B question paper
• Provide evidence from the work place where the assessment is carried out on a simulated site. A

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