NEW ROAD & STREETWORKS FOR OPERATIVES & SUPERVISORS

Operatives:

This course covers 3 days of training plus 2 days of technical tests and teaches the skills you need to carry out work to the standards of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 – the legal framework for street works.

It is for new roads and street work operatives who:

• locate underground apparatus
• set up equipment for works in the highway
• carry out excavation, backfill and reinstatement

Course Content:

• Location and avoidance of underground apparatus
• Signing, lighting and guarding units
• Excavation in the road/highway
• Reinstatement and compaction of backfill materials
• Reinstatement of sub-base and road-base in non-bituminous materials
• Reinstatement of cold-lay bituminous materials
• Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways

Optional units, which need to be pre-booked:

• Reinstatement of hot-lay bituminous materials
• Reinstatement of concrete slabs

The course includes:

• Practical tasks and observation exercises
• Classroom-based theory including written assignments
• Operatives and supervisors learn on the same course to replicate a team environment

Qualification:

• City & Guilds certificate or SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
• The Street Works Qualifications Register Card

Supervisors:

This course covers 3 days of training plus 2 days of technical tests and teaches the skills supervisors need to carry out work to the standards of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 – the legal framework for street works.