Looking at applying for driving a lhd road sweeper. Thing is its to sweep the roads where houses are under construction.
Dose this mean I would need a cpcs Type card thing that everyone needs now to work on a building site theses days ?
Plus any advice from anyone that’s worked on the sweepers would be apricated.
Legaly no but our firm puts us all through it just to be on the safe side we have sweepers skips roll ons mixers tippers etc.
It costs about 25 quid and is very easy aslong as you read the book. Its handy to have if yougo for any job where you might go to a construction site.
I deliver to building sites all day every day & I’ve never been asked for a CPCS. That said, some sites (especially the larger projects) have started insisting on all sorts of documentation being produced during the 30min site induction on your first visit.
Sweeper drivers can earn good £money, but you are usually the first one out & the last one home. If you can handle the possibility of long monotonous hours, driving at 4mph, in some fairly tight & often quite scary situations, then it might be the job for you.
Give it a week & you’ll soon find out.
is it plant or is a truck
theres a free mock test you can do online, i,ve never worked on a building site in my life but did it for a laugh as my lad was learning it and i passed 1st time without even really trying , most of its just common sense
Depends on the construction company. Their site, their rules, you’ll have to do a 30 min induction before you can work anyway!
You will need a CSCS card for building site work, they have been out for years. They were supposed to do away with having to attend an induction at every site, it hasn’t. Some sites will not let you on if you don’t have one.
Cpcs is for plant …Cscs is basic heath and safty .If any thing i would have thought a cscs card would be needed
Our sweeper drivers at my old place had CSCS not CPCS.
HTH
Resurrecting an older thread rather than starting a new one.
I contacted the people that run the CSCS scheme and asked them what type of card I would need to operate on site, turning up with a hgv vehicle in any context, whether that be with a roadsweeper, concrete mixer, tipper or whatever… Their response was basically they didn’t know, but they did state that the CSCS scheme was a voluntary thing and it was up to the individual site agents as to whether they would let you on site without one■■?
Looking at their range of cards, I am currently looking at the site visitor’s card which lasts five years and entails sitting a health and safety test at a local centre. Does anyone that works or delivers to sites and currently has a CSCS card know it the visitors card is the one to have, or is there a more appropriate one on there? I would have thought from a drivers perspective that only health and safety is of any relevance, as we could turn up with a whole variety of different vehicles over a five year period, depending on the local job markets and driving scene.
The whole CSCS / CPCS thing is voluntary and not a legal requirement.
Legally I or you could turn up on site and operate and piece of construction plant from a CFA piling rig to a tower crane with no formal qualification. All that is legally required is that you are competent and have had instruction.
However most sites want the basic CSCS health & safety card to undertake anything there. Most others will want you to have a CPCS plant holder card for the relevant category, other formal qualifications may or may not be accepted. It’s up to the main contractor if they want to take that route, a bit like the FORS scheme.
Typically as a driver delivering to a site you are unlikely to be challenged, I’m in and out of sites all day and occasionally get asked if I have a card but never to actually see it. Exceptions to this are once in a blue moon I may get asked for my CPCS card, Loler tests for crane and chains if I’m lifting something on the site rather than delivering it there. In that instance I have been hired in as a crane to undertake a specific lift rather than offloading something.
CSCS site operative is what I have and I’ve driven sweepers on site. Don’t need CPCS at least I’ve never been asked for it
Thanks guys… Will have another browse on the CSCS site and see if I can see the suitable operative role card, rather than the visitor card.
Personally, I think there should be a universal health and safety card that covers you for sites, quarries, docks, distribution centres etc… If they had that as a compulsory dcpc module with the universal card issued at no extra cost, that would be far more sensible than a wallet full of various cards, as well as appeasing those of us that have to pay for our own training…
I have a CSCS Construction Site Visitor card, and deliver and unload materials with either a Moffet or HIAB (and hold licences for both) and its never been a problem.