10 Hours Construction Industry Standards
The PIMS 10 Hours Construction Industry Standards course provides entry-level construction personnel with a practical introduction to occupational health and safety. Construction sites contain a wide range of h...
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Program Overview
The PIMS 10 Hours Construction Industry Standards course provides entry-level construction personnel with a practical introduction to occupational health and safety. Construction sites contain a wide range of hazards, making basic hazard awareness and safe-working practices essential for reducing workplace incidents and injuries.
The programme introduces common construction hazards, PPE, site-safety procedures, emergency preparedness, occupational health risks and accident-prevention principles to help workers understand their role in maintaining safer construction projects.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Construction Health and Safety
- Roles and responsibilities for workplace safety
- Recognition of common construction hazards
- Basic construction risk-assessment principles
- Safe-working procedures and site-safety practices
- Fall-hazard awareness
- Electrical and equipment hazards
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Safe use and limitations of PPE
- Emergency-response procedures
- Incident and accident prevention
- Occupational health hazards in construction
- Worksite housekeeping and hygiene
- Worker safety awareness and communication
Empowering professionals with knowledge, practical understanding and stronger workplace skills.
PIMSWho Should Attend?
This PIMS construction safety course is designed primarily for entry-level construction workers, building and development personnel, demolition workers, construction helpers, labourers and employees requiring basic or refresher construction health and safety training.
Key Benefits
After completing the PIMS 10 Hours Construction Industry Standards course, participants should be better prepared to:
- Recognise common construction-site hazards
- Understand basic accident and injury-prevention methods
- Identify unsafe conditions and working practices
- Understand the purpose and correct use of PPE
- Improve awareness of worker health and safety responsibilities
- Strengthen emergency preparedness
- Promote safer working behaviour and personal responsibility
- Help reduce incidents, injuries and disruption
- Support a stronger construction safety culture
- Develop foundational occupational safety knowledge for construction work
Assessment & Evaluation
After completing the PIMS course material and required module quizzes, learners may proceed to the course examination.
- The examination is open book and must be completed within 2 hours.
- A minimum score of 65% is required to pass.
- Learners who do not pass may retake the examination.
- A maximum of three examination attempts is permitted within a 10-hour period.
- After three unsuccessful attempts, learners must wait 24 hours before another attempt.
- Learners should review the course material during the waiting period before retaking the assessment.
- Once the examination has been passed, it cannot be retaken solely to improve the score.
- Learners must successfully complete all required course examinations to complete the programme.
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