Principles of Working at height

 

Course Objectives

To enable managers, supervisors and employees to manage and control the risks from working at height in accordance with the Working at Height Regulations 2005

 

Course Content

• What is working at height

• Why training is required

• Statistics

• Injuries

• Introduction to legislation

• Hierarchy of control

• Avoid need, prevent falls, minimise distance / consequence of fall

• Expansion to hierarchy and brief insights to :-

• Work platforms including fixed mobile scaffolding

• Mobile elevated work platforms

• Collective fall arrest devices

• Personal fall arrest devices

• Ladders and stepladders

• Management controls

 

Course duration 5 hours