SHEA Drains & Sewers
Below you can view the currently scheduled available dates for this training:
The SHEA Drains and Sewers scheme is designed for individuals working within the drainage and sewerage industry who require access to operational sites across the UK. This includes operatives, drainage contractors, supervisors, and managers who need to demonstrate a recognised level of competence, environmental awareness, and safe working practice in environments where the risks can be high.
The SHEA Drains & Sewers course provides a uniform approach to safety, health, and environmental awareness across the utilities sector. It ensures workers understand workplace responsibilities, how to identify and control risks, and how to minimise occupational health hazards in line with the Safety Executive guidelines.
The sewers scheme comprises eight modules. Six modules are drawn from the SHEA Core programme, covering health, safety, and environmental law relevant to all utility industries. Two additional modules are tailored specifically to the UK drainage and sewerage industry, ensuring that the training reflects the real-world hazards, environmental issues, and operational procedures found in drain and sewer work.
By completing this training, individuals will gain a good understanding of:
On successful completion, delegates are registered with the Energy & Utility Skills Register (EUSR), confirming their competence to access restricted and controlled operational sites.
The SHEA Drains course is suitable for:
This course provides evidence that an individual has demonstrated the appropriate knowledge, understanding, and behavioural awareness to perform their role safely.
We deliver the SHEA Drains & Sewers training in flexible formats to suit your requirements.
Duration:
Registration:
Your SHEA Drains and Sewers card is valid for three years from the date of training. Both a physical and a virtual card are issued, affiliated with the CSCS Alliance scheme.
Modules | Course Content | |
1 | Understanding our workplace responsibilities | Underpinning legal frameworks, definitions, and their application in the workplace setting, including the responsibilities for both the individual (as an employee) and the employer. |
2 | Understanding the effects of our work on the environment | Key environmental considerations in the workplace, and their impact as employees, on the sustainability of their environment. |
3 | Identifying and controlling risks | Helps the individual to identify and control risks and hazards and understand their role in preventing them through a range of positive and proactive health and safety behaviours. |
4 | Common hazards and controls in the workplace | Develops the ability to both identify a range of common physical hazards and minimise their impact in the workplace, in line with CSCS requirements. |
5 | Occupational health hazards | Explains the meaning of the term ‘occupational health’ and develop the individual’s understanding of a range of occupational health hazards and their requirements. It helps individuals identify, mitigate for and minimise occupational health hazards in the workplace. |
6 | Responding to emergencies | Develops individuals’ understanding of emergency response behaviours, the role of reporting, inspection, and enforcement of health & safety in the workplace. It also develops an individual’s understanding of the impact on employee and employer of both poor/improving health and safety in the workplace. |
12 | Drains and Sewers | Understanding of the requirements for safe working in drains and sewers. It focuses on the known risks when working with drains and sewers, of confined space working and its associated risks, the requirements for using different cleaning methods, and transferring and disposing of waste correctly. |
13 | Highway working and excavations (Drains & Sewers) | Understanding of the processes and procedures required to work in the highway; this includes both public and private environments and creating a safe working environment through the application of safe systems of work in order to avoid other utility services. The individual will understand what to do in the case of an emergency. |
The drainage and sewerage industry presents unique environmental responsibilities. Activities in this sector can directly impact public health, water quality, and the wider environment if not managed responsibly.
The course emphasises environmental awareness training, ensuring workers understand their role in:
By improving awareness of key environmental considerations, workers can contribute to maintaining cleaner, safer, and more sustainable operations.
Stay compliant, reduce risks, and gain your EUSR SHEA Drains and Sewers card with Jason Rowley Ltd. Whether you’re an operative, supervisor, or manager, this training ensures you meet the expectations of the sewers scheme and maintain high standards of safety, health, and environmental awareness.
Contact us today to book your course, discuss group training options, or request a bespoke session for your team.
Available dates for our courses are available here. For other courses and dates not listed, please contact us directly to arrange a suitable date.
Once you have completed a registration form you will receive an invite with instructions on how to join the course.
You can pay for your course(s) online or by card. If you’d prefer to pay by card, please get in touch.
In the first instance you need to contact the team. Depending on when your course is booked for there may be a cancellation fee. If you are due a refund money will be transferred back to you via the original method of payment.
Please get in touch and if we have availability on your preferred date, we can arrange that. There will be an amendment fee £50.
The Energy & Utility Skills Register (EUSR) is the online register of training and skills for the energy and utilities industries. This organisation is the awarding body for our courses.
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