Working at Height Awareness Training

Work in any place where a person could be injured by falling from it, even at or below ground level. There is no minimum height in the regulations, which surprises people. Falls from low heights cause a substantial share of serious injuries.

The online module is thirty minutes and covers what the Work at Height Regulations ask of you, starting where they start: avoid the work if you can. It suits a general workforce and anyone who needs the awareness on record. The half day classroom session puts the equipment in front of people, which is what you want before anyone goes up a tower or puts on a harness.

Yes, at our Pride Park centre, and at Stoke, Manchester and Liverpool. For a group it is usually better at your own site, anywhere in the UK, because then the training is about your access equipment rather than ours. There is also an NPORS Safe Working at Height course where a site wants a card.

No, and that myth causes as many problems as it solves. The Work at Height Regulations 2005 do not ban ladders. They require you to select the right equipment, and a ladder can be the right choice for short duration, low risk work where using something else is not reasonably practicable. The course covers exactly where that line sits.

No. Operating a mobile elevating work platform requires a separate accredited operator qualification, and a site will expect a card. This course covers MEWPs in outline so people understand where they fit in the hierarchy.

Yes, and it is the part most often missing. Somebody suspended in a harness after a fall arrest is on a clock, and “call 999” is not a rescue plan. The course covers what a workable plan looks like and why suspension trauma makes speed matter.

Every three years is the usual interval, and sooner when the work, the equipment or the sites change.

Acadame. It is general awareness training rather than a regulated qualification, which is the right shape for this subject: it is built around what your people actually do and it can be adapted to your own equipment, substances and procedures. Where a regulated qualification is what you need instead, we will say so and point you at it.

Yes, anywhere in the UK, and it is usually the better option. Training on your own equipment, in your own building, with your own procedures in front of people, transfers to the job in a way a generic venue does not.

Up to twelve on a standard session. For practical subjects we will talk through numbers with you, because a room of twenty watching two people practise is not training.