15th July 2010, 02:15 PM
I think the point of the thing is not to make a demanding course that a lot of site operatives (mostly not archaeologists of course) will fail, or to produce loads of qualified H&S experts. It's just a way of ensuring that everyone on site has read and understood some of the very basic points of H&S on site. Whether it achieves this or not is a matter for debate, but cobstruction site safety is taken far more seriously now than used to be the case - i.e. it is actually considered at all. This is not really thanks to CSCS but is largely down to CDM, in and of itself a largely pointless paper chase but at least bringing the issues to the fore.