Safe Working at Heights Awareness

Course for all persons involved in working at heights including managers, supervisors & operatives

Objectives

To enable delegates to:

• Promote safety wherever employed working at height.
• Reduce major injuries and accidents from working at heights.
• Ensure compliance with all well-established safety procedures and all current relevant legislation.

Full Details

Course content

• Introduction to Work at Heights Regulations
• Access and Egress, Loading Places
• Ladders
• Landing Places
• Openings, Corners, Breaks, Edges and Joisting.
• Roof Work (Flat roofs/Sloping roofs/Steep roofs etc.)
• Fragile Roofing Materials
• Work over Water
• Safety Nets, Belts and Harnesses.
• Equipment for working at height: Scaffold, MEWPS, Towers
• SG4:05 Requirements for Scaffolders

Training method

Power point presentation, videos, case studies and class interaction

Equipment required

All delegates should have available & bring with them the following safety equipment:

• Safety shoes / boots
• Gloves
• Hardhat
• Fluorescent jacket/waistcoat

Each delegate will also require 1 passport sized photo.

On site Requirements

Training can either be carried out either in UTN’s Training Centre or on a customers premises, where a room large enough for theory session with electrical supply for the use of Television, laptop & projector.

Number of delegates

As little as one on our scheduled open courses.
In-company course can be arranged for a minimum of eight delegates and accommodate a maximum of twelve.

Certification

The delegate who successfully completes this course will recieve an in-house UTN certificate.

Note

This course meets the criteria for CITB grants. CITB registered companies will be able to claim £26 per person for this course.

The UTN administration section will give full support for the application of this grant.

UTN provide each delegate with a buffet on all our full day courses.