Managing Work at Height - General Access

Aims and objectives

The Managing Work at Height - General Access course aims to provide delegates:
• With a working understanding of the legal and practical requirements safe work at height.
• The ability to assess work at height requirements
• Information on the safe use of work at height equipment including identification of typical faults. The objective is to enable the delegates to manage work at height safely with either their own personnel or their contractors.

Course content

The course covers the Work at Height Regulations 2005, work at height risk assessment, selecting work at height equipment and considers scaffold towers, lightweight work at height systems, safe use and alternatives to step ladders, overview of fall arrest/restraint and mechanical access equipment and edge protection systems.

Intended for

Personnel with supervisory or management responsibilities for work at height.

Why choose this course?

The need to work at height has been a common feature of construction throughout history. Safety has largely focussed around scaffolding and while this remains still a significant issue on site it is by no means the only area of concern. Indeed this has been recognised with the introduction of the Work at Height Regulations 2005.

These Regulations require that work at height is:
•Properly planned,
•Appropriately managed and supervised and
•Carried out in as safe a way as is possible using the best work at height equipment for the circumstances.
There is a large range of work at height equipment available and all of it must be correctly used and managed if the workforce is to remain safe. To this end those with responsibility for work at height must feel confident in their abilities to assess access requirements, select equipment, detect faults and manage the safe use of any such means.
Often the most visible element of any site, the successful management of work at height is essential to provide not only a safe means of work but also the efficient completion of many elements of the project.

Costs

POA