Planning, Coordination, Monitoring and Learning
Contractor selection, induction, coordination, inspections, emergencies, reporting, investigation and corrective action.
How to prepare for the CITB MAP test
Build manager-level decisions around role, prevention, coordination, verification and learning rather than memorising isolated site rules.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Plans must define responsibilities, interfaces, resources, supervision, communication and emergency arrangements before work begins.
Exam cue: Coordinate simultaneous work and identify who controls each shared interface.
Concept 2
Proactive checks and lagging outcomes serve different purposes; both need meaningful review and action.
Exam cue: Use leading information such as control verification as well as injury statistics.
Concept 3
Incident reporting and investigation seek immediate, underlying and organisational causes and track corrective actions to closure.
Exam cue: Preserve the scene when appropriate, care for people, notify correctly and investigate proportionately.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Selecting contractors on price and availability without checking capability.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Using low injury numbers as proof that high-risk controls are effective.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Closing an investigation after identifying only the worker's last action.
Guardrail: Do not solve a design, engineering or organisational failure only with a briefing, warning sign or PPE.
Memory anchors
Plan the Interfaces
Define who controls shared access, services, lifting zones, deliveries and simultaneous work.
Induction Is Site-Specific
Explain the project, hazards, controls, welfare, emergencies and reporting arrangements.
Lead and Lag
Check preventive controls as well as incidents, ill health and loss outcomes.
Report by Rule
Apply current internal and statutory reporting criteria without hiding near misses.
Find System Causes
Look beyond the immediate act to planning, design, competence, resources and supervision.
Close the Loop
Assign corrective action, deadline and owner, then verify effectiveness.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Next step personalized recommendations
Continue learning
Move forward only after this module is stable.
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