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Reduce your risk by training your workers!
Work at height training is key to reducing the risk to your workers and ensuring that the equipment is used correctly.
Most accidents occur due to workers having not received any type of formal training. Employers have legal and moral duty to provide training to their operatives relevant to the task required. They should also ensure that training levels are maintained, regularly monitored and refreshed at suitable intervals.
Training is critical to ensure operatives are competent in the use of the equipment provided and required to undertake the task required to ensure they and others remain safe.
Competence. Every employer shall ensure that no person engages in any activity, including organisation, planning and supervision, in relation to work at height or work equipment for use in such work unless he is competent to do so or, if being trained, is being supervised by a competent person.
~ The Work at Height Regulations 2005
Eurosafe offer a range of training courses to cover all situations.
One of our main courses is the Advanced with Rescue Training course. This course aims to provide the delegate with an advanced knowledge of how to work safely at height and be able to carry out a rescue if a fall occurred.
This course covers off the following and is mixture of both theory and practical:
Overview of health & safety legislation, regulations and Personal Protective Equipment legislation
Hierarchy of Risk and the Difference between fall restraint & fall arrest
Correct choice of equipment & planning
Assessments of hazards & risk
Understanding of Suspension Trauma
Pre-use checks of all equipment
Identification of safe areas to work and suitable Anchor Points
Safe use of ladders
Work positioning techniques
Certification and inspection of fall protection equipment
Rescue plans & Situations
Use of a controlled Descent Device & other Rescue Equipment
First aid actions
Understanding techniques used for safe methods of climbing
Practical element using fall protection & rescue equipment
