CSCS SLG Roadworks study guide
CSCS SLG Roadworks · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The CSCS SLG Roadworks test is a specialist-level health, safety and environment assessment for people who work on or alongside the highway - roadworks operatives, street works teams, reinstatement crews and the supervisors who set out and maintain traffic management. It sits above the general operatives test: instead of only asking about site hazards in the abstract, it tests the decisions you make on a live carriageway, where the consequences of getting signing, lighting and guarding wrong are measured in seconds. The CSCS SLG Roadworks study guide has 6 sections and about 2,493 words.
01Health and Safety Legislation, Roles and Responsibilities
Street works are governed by several layers of law at once. The Health and Safety at Work etc.
739 words, about 4 min02Personal Protective Equipment and Safe Systems of Work
Work through the hierarchy of control before reaching for PPE: eliminate the hazard (work off-peak, close the road), substitute, engineer it out (barriers, exclusion zones, plant with reversing cameras), then administrate (method statements, briefings, permits), and only then protect the individual. PPE at Work Regulations require suitable PPE, free of charge, maintained and stored properly, with training in its use and limitations.
362 words, about 2 min03Signing, Lighting and Guarding of Roadworks
Under NRSWA s.65 and the Code of Practice, works must be signed so drivers get warning and guidance early enough to react, guarded so vehicles and pedestrians cannot enter the works or fall into it, and lit so the layout is visible at night and in poor light. Signing works from the outside in: advance warning signs on every approach, then the taper of cones into the closure, then the works area, then repeaters or additional signing on long or complex sites.
379 words, about 2 min04Traffic Management and Site Layout on the Highway
A traffic management layout is a compromise between the space the works need and the space traffic and pedestrians need to pass safely. Start from the speed limit and traffic flow, then decide the control method: lane closure with cones and a taper , give-and-take (single lane, priority signs), portable or temporary signals , stop/go boards at low speeds and short lengths, convoy working , or contraflow .
341 words, about 2 min05Excavation, Underground Services and Reinstatement
An excavation is a temporary structure and must be treated as one. Support or batter the sides where people work - a common threshold is anything deeper than about 1.2 m , and shallower where ground is poor or there is vibration, traffic loading or previously disturbed ground.
335 words, about 2 min06Plant, Equipment and Working Safely Near Live Carriageways
All plant must be suitable for the task, inspected before use, and maintained under PUWER; lifting equipment and accessories fall under LOLER with thorough examination. Only trained, authorised, competent people operate plant, and the operator is responsible for the machine.
337 words, about 2 min