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Risk assessments, method statements, SWMS and job hazard analyses, for the UK, US, Australia and Canada. Finished documents, no empty boxes left for you.

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Steel, timber, concrete, brickwork, boards, groundworks and roofs. Section data, indicative sizing, quantities and the reference tables you normally go hunting for.

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See what it would look like before you commit, then work out what it takes. Upload a photo of your own wall, drive or house and try things on it.

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Invoices, quotes, receipts and the rest of the paperwork, generated properly. No account, no watermark, and Download is the only button.

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Wages, mortgages, tax and the everyday sums. What you actually take home, what it actually costs, and what you actually owe.

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Rotas, rosters and schedules, holiday and PTO, timesheets and staff paperwork. The admin that eats a Sunday evening, done in ten minutes.

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Starting up, getting found and keeping the admin straight. Everything downloadable, nothing paywalled at the last step.

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PDF & documents27 of 27

Merge, split, crop, sign, number and compress. Everything runs in your browser, so the contract you open here never reaches a server.

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Convert, resize, compress, crop and adjust. All of it on your own machine, with no upload, no account and no watermark on anything.

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Word counts, case, days between dates, working days and ages. The ten-second look-ups, with no account and nothing stored.

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Secret Santa, draws, brackets, sweepstakes, printables and party quantities. The bit that is just for fun, done properly.

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Training & tests21 of 21

Practice tests for the cards and licences that decide whether you can work. Every answer cites the guidance it came from, not a forum.

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Training & tests

Practice tests for the cards and licences that decide whether you can work. Every answer cites the guidance it came from, not a forum.

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A tool that works anywhere counts under every country, which is why these add to more than 21. A badge on a tile means it is built for specific markets.

CSCS & the HS&E test

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Mock tests for all three levels, at the real pass marks, plus which card and which test you actually need.

CSCS mock testUKA full 50 question HS&E test at the real pass mark, every answer sourced.CSCS supervisor mock testUKThe five core areas, plus what you do when you find somebody working unsafely.CSCS demolition mock testUKSequence, surveys, services, and the structure coming down in a planned order.CSCS highway works mock testUKSigning, lighting and guarding, and working on foot inside live traffic.CSCS work at height mock testUKThe hierarchy of control, and why there is no two metre rule.CSCS tunnelling mock testUKAtmosphere, escape and ground support, where every ordinary hazard changes category.CSCS plumbing and heating mock testUKGas, legionella, scalding, and stored pressure in occupied homes.CSCS pipefitting and welding mock testUKThe fume reclassification most of the trade learned late, and why it changed.CSCS lifts and escalators mock testUKIsolation, shaft access, and the public on the other side of the door.CSCS HVAC and ductwork mock testUKRefrigerant that pools at floor level, cooling towers, and life above the ceiling.CSCS facilities maintenance mock testUKSomeone else’s live building, usually alone, and usually alongside the public.

Site cards outside the UK

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The card you cannot get on site without in America, Australia and Canada. Three countries, three completely different kinds of assessment, and only one of them is a paper.

OSHA 10 practice testUSFocus Four weighted the way OSHA weights it, and why there is no official pass mark.Ontario working at heightsCAThree years from the day you passed, and the trigger is the kit, not the height.Ontario awareness training and WHMISCAThe worker and supervisor programmes under O. Reg. 297/13, and the card that expires.OSHA 30 practice testUSThe supervisor course, not a longer OSHA 10: leadership, confined spaces, cranes.White Card practice testAUThe four elements of CPCWHS1001, and the parts no website can practise for you.

Driving & transport

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Theory test practice, hazard perception, and keeping a Driver CPC alive.

Driver CPC part 1 mockUKA hundred questions in 1 hour 55 at the real 85 pass mark, hours and rest included.Motorcycle theory mock testUKThe same 57 minutes as the car test, with a guaranteed rider-specific share.Hazard perception practiceUKTen animated scenes scored the real way, and why an early click is worth nothing.Driver CPC part 2 mockUKSeven case studies, 50 questions in 1 hour 15 at the real 40 pass mark.Car theory mock testUKFifty questions in 57 minutes at the real 43 pass mark, and how many repeat.

Guides and explainers

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Written answers rather than tools, for the questions the calculators above do not settle. No sign up on these either.

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The card is the gate, and the test is the gate on the card

Almost nobody sets out to learn health and safety law. They set out to get on site, discover the card is the gate, and then discover the test is the gate on the card. It is fifty questions in forty-five minutes and it passes at forty-five, which is a ninety per cent bar and considerably higher than most people expect walking in. Five wrong answers is the whole allowance.

What makes that harder than it needs to be is that the practice available is mostly bad. Free mock tests give a right answer and no reason, so a question you get wrong teaches you one fact and nothing about why it is the fact. Paid apps want a subscription for a question bank they will not describe. And every one of them implies, without ever quite saying it, that these are the real questions.

Every test on this hub, with the figures that decide whether you walk out of the centre having passed. The pass marks are not all the same, and the one people get wrong is the managers paper being a mark higher than the operatives one:

TestQuestionsTimePass mark
CITB HS&E, operatives5045 min45 of 50
CITB HS&E, specialists5045 min45 of 50
CITB HS&E, managers and professionals5045 min46 of 50
DVSA car theory, multiple choice5057 min43 of 50
DVSA motorcycle theory, multiple choice5057 min43 of 50
Driver CPC part 1, theory100115 min85 of 100

The car and motorcycle theory tests have a hazard perception section as well, scored separately, and you have to pass both parts on the same attempt. A CITB pass is valid for two years when you come to apply for the card, which catches people who sit the test early and finish the qualification late.

Nobody has the real questions, and saying so is the honest start

CITB does not publish its live bank. It sells it, in GT100 and GT200, and reproducing it would be somebody else’s copyright whatever anybody claims. DVSA does not publish the theory test bank either, and is unusually clear about its own free practice test: the questions "are not used in the real test, but they are based on the same topics as the test".

<strong>Two of the other three markets do not have this problem at all, because they have no exam to have a bank for.</strong> The American Outreach card records hours attended, so there is nothing to publish and nothing to leak. The Australian White Card is decided by an assessor watching you rather than by a paper, which is why no question bank exists for it either. Canada runs taught awareness programmes whose record is completion rather than a mark. Britain is the outlier here: it is the only one of the four that gates a site behind a scored, timed, multiple choice examination, and that is precisely why an industry of bad practice tests grew up around it and around nowhere else.

That is the standard rather than a compromise, and it points at the honest way to build practice. What these tests actually examine is published guidance, most of it free from HSE under the Open Government Licence. So every question here is written from that guidance and cites it, which means a wrong answer sends you to the paragraph that settles it rather than to a forum full of people guessing.

A score out of fifty is useless. A score by area is a Saturday morning

The test covers five knowledge areas:

  • Working environment.
  • Occupational health.
  • Safety.
  • High risk activities.
  • Specialist.

Being told you scored thirty-eight tells you to revise everything, which nobody does. Being told you got four out of ten on occupational health tells you to go and read about noise, vibration and dust, and that is an afternoon rather than a fortnight.

The other thing worth knowing before you practise is the arithmetic of a small question bank. Two papers of fifty drawn from a bank of sixty share about forty-two questions, so sitting the same mock twice is mostly answering what you have just answered. You score beautifully and learn nothing, which is worse than not practising because you walk in confident. Every practice test here reports that figure rather than hiding it.

Grandfather rights are gone, and roughly sixteen thousand people are still holding the consequences

Cards issued under Industry Accreditation expired on 31 December 2024 and cannot be replaced by the same route. Those cards were issued on an employer recommendation rather than a qualification, and the Construction Leadership Council set the expectation years in advance that every card would be qualification-backed by the end of 2024. The support package took active IA cards from around sixty thousand down to about sixteen thousand.

If that is you, the useful thing to know is that you are not being sent back to college. The route is assessment of what you already do, and the Experienced Worker card exists to cover the gap while a qualification is completed. It is valid for one year and it cannot be renewed, which is the detail people miss: it buys twelve months, once.

Commonly asked questions & answers

CITB test or CSCS card, which one do I book?UK

Both, in that order, and they are two different organisations. CITB runs the Health, safety and environment test. CSCS issues the card. You sit the test first, then apply for the card, and you pay each of them separately, which is the part that catches people out when they budget for one fee and meet two. Failing to notice they are separate bodies is also why people ring the wrong one when something goes wrong.

Sources: CITB, book a HS&E testCSCS, applying for cards

Which CSCS card do I actually need?UK

The card follows your qualification, not your job title, and that is the thing most people have backwards. Green Labourer needs a Level 1 award. Blue Skilled Worker needs an NVQ or SVQ Level 2. Gold is Level 3, either Advanced Craft or Supervisor. Black Manager is Level 5 or 6. Calling yourself a supervisor does not get you a gold card, and holding the NVQ does. Your card level also decides which test you sit, so work out the card first and the test second.

Source: CSCS card finder

Is the CITB test the only way to get a card?UK

No, and CSCS lists the alternatives on its own site, which almost nobody reads. A SOLAS Safe Pass from Ireland is accepted. So is the CIC Health and Safety Test for the professional cards. And if you are on an apprenticeship, the health and safety element can already be covered, so sitting the test again is money you did not need to spend. Check before you book: the exemption is easier to use than to claim back.

Source: CSCS, alternatives to the HS&E test

How long is an OSHA 10 card good for?US

OSHA does not expire it. Its own wording is that student course completion cards "do not have an expiration date", and that expiration dates may be imposed by other entities but it is not an OSHA requirement. So the answer is really about who is asking: your state, your employer, your union or the site you want onto may all want it renewed on a cycle, commonly three or five years, and none of that comes from OSHA. If somebody tells you your card has expired, the useful question is which of them is saying so.

Source: OSHA Outreach Training Program FAQs

I lost my OSHA card. Can OSHA send me another?US

No, and this is the one people waste the most time on. OSHA keeps no record of your class and cannot issue a replacement. The trainer or online provider who taught you holds the records, and they keep them for five years. Inside that window they can issue one replacement per student per class. Outside it, or if the trainer cannot be found, there is no route left and you retake the course. Photograph the card the day you get it.

Source: OSHA, replacement 10-hour or 30-hour card

What is the American equivalent of a CSCS card?US

There is not one, and expecting there to be is what makes the move confusing in both directions. Britain has a single national card scheme that a site checks at the gate. America has training rather than a card scheme: an OSHA 10 or 30 card proves you sat a course, it is not a licence to be on site, and no federal body gates access. What fills the gap is local: some states and cities mandate the training by law, New York City goes further with its own Site Safety Training card, and beyond that it is whatever the contractor or the union asks for.

Source: OSHA Outreach Training Program

Do I need a White Card before I set foot on an Australian site?AU

Yes. General construction induction training is a legal prerequisite, not a formality, and the unit is CPCWHS1001, Prepare to work safely in the construction industry. It is nationally recognised, so a card issued in one state works in the others. It does not expire on a date, but it lapses if you have not carried out construction work for two years, which catches people coming back to the trade after time away more often than it catches anybody new.

Source: Safe Work Australia, general construction induction

Does Ontario worker awareness training expire?CA

No. Under O. Reg. 297/13 both the worker and the supervisor awareness programmes are a one-off: complete it once and it stands. What does not go away is the record. Your employer has to keep proof of completion and produce it on request, and if you change employer the new one is entitled to ask for it, so the copy worth keeping is your own. That makes it the odd one out on this hub, where most site credentials do have a renewal cycle.

Source: Ontario, health and safety awareness training

Why do some of these have no pass mark?

Because not everything here is a test. A White Card is competency-based: an assessor decides whether you can do the thing, and there is no score to hit. Ontario awareness training is a completion rather than an examination. The genuinely scored ones are the CITB tests at 45 or 46 out of 50, and the DVSA theory tests at 43 out of 50. Where a mock here shows no pass mark, it is because inventing one would tell you something about us rather than about the assessment.

What happens if I fail?

It depends what you sat, and two of the four cannot be failed at all. There is no statutory waiting period on the CITB test, so you are limited by test centre availability rather than by a rule, and you pay again. The DVSA theory test makes you wait three clear working days. OSHA 10 has no assessment to fail: it is ten instructional hours and a card, so anybody quoting you an official pass mark for it is quoting something OSHA never set. And a White Card is competency-based, where the result is competent or not yet competent, so you are reassessed rather than failed. None of the four records anything that follows you around.