New Roads & Streetworks

NRSWA

(New Roads and Street Works Act)

Training & Testing

NRSWA courses for Operatives/Supervisors  

• 5 day Full Course for Operatives (Units 1 to 6 +9)

• 001 (now LA) – Location & avoidance of underground apparatus
• 002 (now O1) – Signing, lighting and guarding
• 003 (now O2) – Excavation in the highway
• 004 (now O3) – Reinstatement & compaction of backfill materials
• 005 (now O4) – Reinstatement of sub base & road in non bituminous materials
• 006 (now O5) – Reinstatement of cold-lay bituminous materials 
• 007 (now O6) – Reinstatement of hot lay bituminous materials (this is delivered in the 

                              workplace as an additional unit)

• 009 (now O8) – Reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways

• 5 day Full Course for Supervisors 

• 001 (now LA) – Location and avoidance of underground apparatus
• 010 (now S1) – Monitoring, signing, lighting and guarding
• 011 (now S2) – Monitoring excavation in the highway
• 012 (now S3) – Monitoring reinstatement & compaction of backfill layer
• 013 (now S4) – Monitoring reinstatement of sub and road base in non-bituminous  

                              material

• 014 (now S5) – Monitoring reinstatement of bituminous materials 
• 016 (now S7) – Monitoring reinstatement of modular surfaces and concrete footways

• 1 day Signing, Lighting and Guarding [operatives and supervisors], units

• 002 (now O1) Signing, lighting and guarding, or
• 010 (now S1) Monitoring, signing, lighting and guarding

• 1 day Cable avoidance 

• 001 (now LA) – Location and avoidance of underground apparatus

Street Works Refresher and Full Courses:

Full Course Supervisor/Operator 

Refresher Course – 2 day course.

Cat and Genny Streetworks/NPORS – 1 day course

Signing, Lighting and Guarding – 1 day course 

These courses can be carried out at your company premises, please ask for details.

NRSWA courses require a cohort of between four and eight persons per courses