Safety Duty holder Questions Answered – Contractors

What is the definition of Contractor?

A Contractor means any employer whose employees carry out construction work and includes both main contractor and sub-contractor. Contractor may also include a self-employed person where such a person supplies materials and labour or labour only.  In addition, a body such as a local authority may also be a contractor, if the construction work is carried out directly by employees of that body.

Power of Diversity Course Feedback

Some feedback on CIF’s Power of Diversity Programme delivered on September 27th

• ” The Programme covers a broad range of topics around the area of diversity that managers can implement with their teams. It gives you the tools to work on areas such as workplace bias and inclusive actions in ways that can help everyone in the workplace feel more comfortable with and more aware of diversity”
• ” A thought provoking training that gives a definition of diversity and inclusion. The session gives practical strategies on how to put diversity into practice “
• ” Thought provoking programme, particularly enjoyed the content regarding micro behaviours and types of bias.  An interactive programme and an excellent, clearly very knowledgeable facilitator, aided learning.  I really recommend to business leaders to take the time to complete this programme. The business benefits of D&I should be motivation enough “

Full details of course below

https://ciftraining.ie/product/the-power-of-diversity/#1664372941679-0316041c-5d38

Water Conservation Clinic: October 12th

Irish Water has partnered with the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) to call on sustainability representatives in industry to enroll in their upcoming Water Conservation Clinic on 12th October. The free clinic will offer training and guidance in terms of how businesses can implement sustainable and circular processes at their sites to conserve water.

https://www.leanskillnet.com/training/water-conservation-clinic/

CIF Core Safety Management Programme Renewal

For those who work in the field of health and safety, especially health and safety in the workplace, staying up to date with developments within construction safety is a vital part of delivering an effective service, both to employers and the workforce.  Health and safety legislation often changes as we learn from real life incidents in the workplace and making sure your knowledge is current is an essential part of remaining compliant always.  This is the reason that health and safety professionals, especially within the construction industry, are required to regularly update their training with Safety Management Renewal courses for CPD purposes.

September Training Programme Schedule

For your reference CIF Learning & Development Training Programme Schedule for September:

Tuesday, September 13^th: 09.00 – 17.00

City & Guilds Site Supervisor Safety Programme

Day 1: Tuesday, September 13^th

Day 2: Wednesday, September 14^th

https://ciftraining.ie/product/site-supervisor-safety-training/

Wednesday, September 14^th: 09.30 – 16.30

CIF Access to Conservation & Heritage Sites

Day 1: Wednesday, September 14th

https://ciftraining.ie/product/cif-access-to-conservation-and-heritage-sites/

Thursday, September 15^th: 09.00 – 17.00

City & Guilds Project Supervisor for Construction Stage

Day 1:  Thursday, September 15^th

Day 2: Thursday, September 22^nd

Day 3: Thursday, September 29^th

https://ciftraining.ie/product/project-supervisor-construction-stage/

CIF Training Programme Timetable for October to December 2022

CIF Learning & Development Course Timetable October -December 2022

The CIF course time table for October to December 2022 is now available to download.

All course may be booked via www.ciftraining.ie or contact Conor Greham on 01 4066031 [email protected] .

Q4 2022 Course Timetable

Safety Duty holder Questions Answered – Client

The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations, 2013 interprets ‘client’ as a person for whom a project is carried out, in the course or furtherance of a trade, business or undertaking, or who undertakes a project directly in the course or furtherance of such trade, business or undertaking and since 2013 construction work done on your own domestic dwelling e.g. an extension on to your kitchen, or you are building your own house.