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.

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.