CSCS card

[Nibble]

Doing my course and exam next week. Anyone done this? hard? easy?

 

[Woodchip]

Is it like CS gas but in a hard form and for people with a stutter?

 

[Nibble]

No, it's like a Health & Safety training course so you are allowed onto construction sites. In fact that is exactly what it is.

 

[Colossal Squid]

If it's a mandatory health and safety course it is hardly likely to be difficult, just immensely boring

 

[Nibble]

That was my thinking, however it lasts for 5 days!

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

When I took it about 5 years ago it was on screen multiple choice where you could normally eliminate all but 2 answers. If you did the study it was fairly easy – never heard of any one failing it. Most of the big boys like Bovis and Skanska make it a condition of getting on site. Just another scam really for the regulatory bodies to trouser some easy money.

 

[natterjack]

CSCS Test

It depends what level you do, but generally nothing to be frightened of. The Site Managers level is a bit more tricky, but all answers are multiple choice.

Have you got the revision book? An hour or two with that and you should be OK - as long as you have a reasonable level of common sense.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Our installers at work have to have them. They looked at a book about it (guessing the equilivant of the highway code for the driving theory test) and then took the test one morning for about 40 mins I believe. It's meant to be pretty straight forward - just common sense really. Not sure why yours last 5 days though!?

 

[Notters]

Like natterjack says, it depends which one. I've gotta get a yellow visitors one, which looks like a piece of piss.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

- as long as you have a reasonable level of common sense.

That’s exactly what site safety used to be, until it got hijacked and turned into a cottage industry. Most important thing on sites nowadays is to have any warning signs in about 10 different languages to cater for all the different folks working there!

 

[hitony]

I did the Platinum one a few years ago, i think that has now become the Blue or black card, anyway it was the senior manager one (NVQ4 or 5 i think?) and that was not hard,only a multiple choice thingy and i took mine in the Cardiff theory driving test place.

 

[NMH]

To expand my availability for self-employed work, and to be able to become a contractor whenever suitable, I took the CSCS test.
It's easy IF you study, but COULD be difficult if you don't.
The questions are random and unpredictable, and even multiple choice questions can have several possible answers.... unless you know the exact choice.
How many people know the fire-extinguisher colour-codes unless they learned them somewhere?

I would revise if I were you.

 

[Nibble]

Cheers. Yes, I am only going for yellow card at present but will do whatever revision is required. quite looking forward to it.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It is an absolute piece of piss. Anyone capable of failing it, really would not be safe around power tools!

I don't want to give away too many of the answers [don't want Nibble cheating] but the questions are stuff like;

Fire extinguishers are to be used for the following;

a. Putting out fires.
b. Propping open fire doors.
c. Both the above.

A few were a little bit harder, but not a lot.

 

[natterjack]

That was my thinking, however it lasts for 5 days!

This looks like the 5-day SMSTS course which can be a little more difficult. The people who take the course usually want you to pass, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.

The CSCS card is just a 30 minute touch-screen test, totally seperate from the SMSTS.

SMSTS