Overview
The managers’ test, with the preparation built in
The Health, Safety and Environment Test for Managers and Professionals, usually called the MAP test, is the version taken by people who run construction work: site managers, project managers, and degree qualified or chartered professionals applying for the White AQP and PQP cards. Site supervisors applying for the Gold Supervisory card sit the Specialist test for supervisors instead, which we also book. It goes further than the Operatives test, with a heavy weighting on legal duties, management responsibilities and high risk activities, and its case study questions expect you to answer as the person in charge.
Our preparation course covers all five subject areas of the MAP test in seven focused modules, then proves you are ready with a full length 50 question mock exam you can sit as often as you like. When you are passing comfortably, we book your real test at a Pearson Vue centre near you. A pass is valid for two years when applying for your card.
How it works
Study. Practice. Sit your test.
This is a complete route to a test pass, not just a booking. Everything below is included in the one price.
1. Study the prep course
Your online preparation course opens the moment your order is complete. Work through the modules at your own pace on any device.
2. Practice the mock exam
Sit our full length 50 question mock, in the style of the real test, as many times as you like. Aim for two passes in a row at 90 percent.
3. Sit your test
We book your MAP test at your nearest Pearson Vue test centre on a date that suits you. Bring photo ID and your result is printed the same day.
What’s included
Everything you need to pass, in one package
Your official CITB MAP test at a Pearson Vue centre near you, booked for you by our team.
The full online preparation course, seven modules covering every subject area of the test.
A full length 50 question mock exam with unlimited attempts, randomised like the real thing.
Twelve months’ access to the course and mock on any device, phone, tablet or PC.
Test centre and date arranged around you, with next available slots at hundreds of centres UK wide.
UK support team on the phone if you need help with your booking, your course or your card application.
Course content
Seven modules, then your mock exam
Your preparation course mirrors the subject areas of the real test. Most candidates are ready after three to five hours of study.
1The MAP TestWho needs it, the format, and how your booking works.⌄
- The cards that require the MAP test: Black Manager, White AQP and PQP
- 50 questions in 45 minutes on a touch screen
- Knowledge questions and behavioural case studies
- How your test is booked and what to bring on the day
2Legal and Management ResponsibilitiesThe heaviest weighted area of the MAP test.⌄
- The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and reasonable practicability
- CDM 2015 duty holders and F10 notification
- Risk assessments, method statements and the hierarchy of control
- RIDDOR reporting duties and timescales
- Consultation, induction and HSE enforcement notices
3Health and WelfareOccupational health: the hazards that harm more than accidents do.⌄
- COSHH, silica dust and cement
- Asbestos: surveys, discovery and licensed work
- Noise action values and hand arm vibration
- Manual handling: avoid, assess, reduce
- Welfare facilities, wellbeing, drugs and alcohol
4General SafetyPPE, electricity, fire, transport and housekeeping.⌄
- PPE duties and face fit testing
- 110 volt supplies, overhead lines and buried services
- Fire prevention, extinguishers and hot works permits
- Segregating people from plant, signallers and exclusion zones
- Safety sign colours and site standards
5High Risk ActivitiesThe work that kills, and the manager’s controls.⌄
- Work at height: avoid, prevent, minimise, and scaffold inspection
- Excavation support and inspection regimes
- Confined space entry, testing and rescue plans
- Demolition planning and temporary works
- LOLER lifting operations and examinations
6EnvironmentWaste, water, nuisance and wildlife.⌄
- The waste duty of care and transfer notes
- The waste hierarchy from prevention to landfill
- Silty water, spills and the drain rules
- Noise, dust and neighbour management
- Protected species and invasive plants
7Exam Technique and Behavioural Case StudiesHow the questions behave and how to bank the marks.⌄
- How case studies are marked, and the manager’s pattern
- A worked example scenario
- The key numbers that earn free marks
- Test day: ID, timing, review screen and results
The test
What the real test looks like
CITB HS&E Test for Managers and Professionals
Your preparation
A test pass is valid for two years when applying for your card. If you do not pass first time, we can book a resit at a reduced rate.
Who it’s for
Which cards need the MAP test?
The MAP test supports the senior CSCS cards. If you are applying for or renewing one of these, this is your package.
Black Manager card
Site, project and senior managers with a construction management NVQ at level 5, 6 or 7.
Gold Supervisory card?
Supervisors sit the Specialist test for supervisors instead. Book it through our CITB Specialists test package.
White AQP card
Academically Qualified Persons with approved construction degrees, HNDs, HNCs or CIOB exams.
White PQP card
Professionally Qualified Persons, members of bodies such as CIOB, RICS, ICE and CIBSE.
Renewals
Card holders whose test pass is older than two years and need a fresh pass to renew.
Employers
Companies putting managers and supervisors through cards, with block bookings available.
Pricing & the small print
Clear pricing, and who we are
What your £50 is made of
ID you must bring on test day
National Compliance Training is an independent training provider and third party booking agent. We are not CITB and we are not part of CITB or CSCS. The CITB Health, Safety and Environment Test is a CITB product, delivered at Pearson Vue test centres, and the same test can be booked directly with CITB for the test fee alone. Our price includes the CITB test fee plus our booking service, preparation course, mock exam and support. Passing the test depends on your performance on the day, and no preparation product can guarantee a pass. Tests can be rescheduled free of charge with sufficient notice, normally at least 72 hours before your appointment. Missed appointments and ID failures forfeit the CITB test fee.
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