Should no completed vocational qualification according to the German law of vocational qualifications or equivalent or higher qualification be available, a replacement training must be completed and proof of such be provided. The training must comprise a minimum of 24 teaching units in total (45 minutes each). Courses are only recognized from training organizations, that can prove the required learning objectives for the relevant qualification to the certification body according to the normative document – Personnel Certification: operative employees in the “SGU” field.

Written examination (multiple choice – MC)

The examination is created from the examination question catalogue of the “DGMK”. It consists of 40 MC questions with 4 answer possibilities each, of which one is correct. 60 minutes are available to answer all questions. The examination is passed with 28 correct answers.

With the SGU examination operative employees have proven, that they possess the necessary knowledge in order to consider the relevant rules of work safety, health and environmental protection during their work on building sites and plant locations.

The certificate has a validity of 10 years. Subsequently an examination has to be taken again.