Work Safely at Heights
Trade Skills Training offers this course as a half day on-site course. Also avaliable is the option to conduct the course for companies utilising the premises of Perth Training Centre in Bentley or Trade Skills Training in Midland.
The aim of the course is to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to safely use fall prevention equipment when working at height.
Content of the course covers the following elements relating to safely working at height:
- How to perform an inspection on fall prevention equipment prior to using
- Hazard Identification, assessment & control
- Determine when a piece of equipment should not be used and what to do about it
- Differences in Fall Arrest & Fall Restraint systems
- Correct fitting and adjusting of harnesses
- How to select and anchorage point and how to safely use it
- How to clean and store fall prevention equipment
- Static lines, types, requirements and how to use them
- Using Ladders & Work Platforms (scaffolds & EWP's)
- Industrial Rope Access Systems
- Emergency Rescue Procedures
- Relevant Australian Standards and Codes of Practice regarding fall prevention equipment and policies
This program is useful to any worker across industry that may be require to work at a height defined under workplace legislation as dangerous. Participants need to be free of any physical or medical condition that may prohibit their usage of arrest harnesses or effect ability to work at height.
Persons successfully completing the Course will be awarded a Certificate of Attainment in the National Competence Unit.
The course is only available as on site training. Also avaliable is the option to conduct the course for companies utilising the premises of Perth Training Centre in Bentley or Trade Skills Training in Midland.