• Pre-course Requirements

    Delegates must have passed the appropriate HS&E test within the last two years prior to attending this course

    Course Overview

    This course will provide delegates with the necessary skills, knowledge, and training for the role of the mobile crane operator as part of the overall lifting operations team. It is for those who are required to operate mobile cranes for the movement of loads.

    Course Structure

    • Operating the crane safely
    • Responding to recognized crane signals accurately
    • Correct positioning of the crane
    • Altering jib lengths and associated safety devices
    • Routine plant maintenance and minor adjustments
    • Safe load indicators and duties charts
    • Chains, slings and lifting gear
    • Crane capabilities and safety precautions
    • Basic theory of power units, transmission systems and control systems
    • Understanding and interpreting duties charts
    • Understanding how to programme safe load indicators
    • The effects of radius change on the safe working capacity
    • Statutory regulations and Codes of Practice applicable to lifting operations
    • Effects of shock loading on structural strength, stability and load displacement
    • Principles of safe slinging and the types and capacities of chains, slings and lifting gear
    • The correct and safe use of outriggers
    • Transport regulations and preparing for travel on the public highway

    Course Duration

    5 days
  • Pre-course Requirements

    Delegates must have passed the appropriate HS&E test within the last two years prior to attending this course

    Course Overview

    The A61 Appointed Person (Lifting Operations) course will give you an understanding of the appointed person’s responsibilities and how to fulfil them. It will also provide you with the ability to interpret and apply sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the BS 7121 Safe Use of Cranes guidelines. If you already hold a in date CPCS A40 Slinger Signaller licence CPCS will grant delegates automatic entitlement to the A62 Crane Supervisor category on completion of this course.

    Course Structure

    • Follow safe systems of work including method statements
    • Take personal responsibility
    • Describe different types of cranes and associated terminology
    • Understand crane documentation
    • Understand crane stability, duty charts and safety devices
    • Appreciate tower cranes
    • Observe British Standard 7121
    • Recognise the role of appointed persons
    • Plan a lift

    Course Duration

    5 days
  • Pre-course Requirements

    Delegates must have passed the appropriate HS&E test within the last two years prior to attending this course

    Course Overview

    The A62 Crane Supervisor course will enable delegates to undertake the duties of a crane supervisor as defined by the appointed person. You will learn how to comply with legislation, regulations, Codes of Practice and industrial requirements.

    Course Structure

    • Legislation, regulations and Codes of Practice relating to lifting duties
    • Safe systems of work including method statements
    • Taking personal responsibility
    • Different types of cranes and associated terminology
    • Understanding crane documentation
    • Understanding crane stability, duty charts and safety devices
    • Crane appreciation
    • Observing British Standard 7121
    • Understanding the role of crane supervisor
    • Understanding the role of appointed person
    • Preparing an area with exclusion zones

    Course Duration

    3 Days (Novice)
  • Pre-course Requirements

    There are no awarding body pre course requirements however it is strongly recommended that a individual has 18months – 2 year’s experience prior to enrolling for this course.

    Course Overview

    New Roads & Street Works (NRSWA) training is in line with The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, which places a duty on any person or organisation undertaking work involving the installation, renewal, maintenance or inspection of underground apparatus in any street or road to ensure that work is under the control of competent persons. Our internal, fully qualified and occupationally competent assessors work to the HAUC Specifications.

    Course Structure

    • LA - Location & Avoidance of Underground Apparatus
    • 01 - Signing Lighting & Guarding
    • 02 - Excavation in the Highway
    • 03 – Reinstatement and Compaction of Backfill Materials
    • 04 – Reinstatement of Sub- Base and Road Base in Non-Bituminous Materials
    • 05 – Reinstatement of Cold lay Bituminous materials
    • 08 - Reinstatement of Modular Surfaces and Concrete Footways

    Course Duration

    5 Days
  • Pre-course Requirements

    Candidates must have a NRSWA licence within the grade period to renew

    Course Overview

    New Roads & Street Works (NRSWA) training is in line with The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, which places a duty on any person or organisation undertaking work involving the installation, renewal, maintenance or inspection of underground apparatus in any street or road to ensure that work is under the control of competent persons. Our internal, fully qualified and occupationally competent assessors work to the HAUC Specifications.

    Course Duration

    2 Days
  • Pre-course Requirements

    There are no awarding body pre course requirements however it is strongly recommended that a individual has 18months – 2 year’s experience prior to enrolling for this course.

    Course Overview

    New Roads & Street Works (NRSWA) training is in line with The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, which places a duty on any person or organisation undertaking work involving the installation, renewal, maintenance or inspection of underground apparatus in any street or road to ensure that work is under the control of competent persons. Our internal, fully qualified and occupationally competent assessors work to the HAUC Specifications.

    Course Duration

    1 Day
  • CITB – Health and Safety Awareness

    Overview This course highlights potential hazards when working on site and provides practical advice on keeping yourself and your colleagues safe. It covers your individual and employer’s responsibilities, including what you can do if you think anyone’s health and safety is being put at risk. At the end of the course you will have an understanding of:
    • the need to prevent accidents
    • health and safety law
    • how your role fits into the control and management of the site risk assessments and method statements
    • performing safely and asking for advice
    • how to report unsafe acts to prevent an accident
    Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to retake the course before the expiry date
     
  • SSSTS

    Overview At the end of the course you will have an understanding of:
    • health and safety law and how it applies to supervisors
    • your supervisory responsibilities in controlling site safely
    • risk assessments and the need for method statements
    • effective site inductions, toolbox talks and method statement briefings monitoring site activities effectively
    • timely intervention when bad practice is identified
    Certification for this course is valid for 5 years. To remain certified in this area, you will need to take a refresher course before the expiry date on your certificate, otherwise the full course will need to be retaken.    
     
  • What is Emergency First Aid at Work?

    The Emergency First Aid at Work training syllabus covers:
    • Understand the role and responsibilities of the first aider
    • Recording and reporting of accidents and incidents including RIDDOR
    • Contents of a first aid kit (including preventing cross infection)
    Assessing the situation and acting safely, effectively and promptly in an emergency. Administer first aid to a casualty who is/requires:
    • Unconscious (including seizure)
    • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
    • Choking
    • Wounded and bleeding
    • Suffering from shock
    Appropriate first aid for minor injuries including minor cuts, grazes, bruises, small splinters, minor burns and scalds In addition, discussion of specific work related injuries/illness to include topics such as –
    • Anaphylactic Shock
    • Stroke
    • Asthma
    • Heart Attack including Angina
    • Diabetes
    • Fractures
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