Accredited learning: Preventative highways maintenance fundamentals

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Available through the MHA+ Learning Management System (LMS).

Preventative Highways Maintenance Fundamentals is a flexible, on-demand online course. It helps highways professionals build the knowledge and understanding needed to support the shift from reactive maintenance to a preventative, asset management-led approach.

Who is it for?

This course is designed for:

  • Highways maintenance professionals.
  • Highways asset managers, engineers and officers.
  • Highways, structures, asset engineers and technicians.
  • Highways, structures and asset inspectors.
  • Maintenance contractors and service providers.
  • Graduate and early-career highways professionals.
  • Anyone involved in the management, maintenance, or delivery of highway infrastructure services.

We’ll register you with CIHT Learn, where you can access the content on demand at any time, so you can complete the training at your own pace.

The online format is a practical and cost-effective way to build competence, without the need for travel or time away from the workplace.

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the principles and benefits of preventative highway maintenance.
  • Develop a preventative highways maintenance strategy, including the key components of a Highway Infrastructure Asset Management System and prioritisation techniques.
  • Identify appropriate preventative maintenance treatments for: Carriageways, Drainage systems, Highway structures, Street lighting, Footways, and Traffic signals and electronic traffic equipment.
  • Understand how to deliver a preventative highways maintenance strategy.
  • Recognise the role of stakeholder engagement and communication in the successful delivery of highway maintenance programmes.

The course is supported by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) and endorsed by the UK Roads Leadership Group (UKRLG). It was developed to address the increasing focus on preventative maintenance, workforce competence and asset management maturity across the highways sector. The content aligns with the UKRLG asset management competence framework.

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