NPORS Roll Crusher Packer Training (N026)

NPORS publish the category as Roll Crusher, Packer, and list it with the crusher and the screener as material processing plant. Machines described that way vary between sites, so the honest answer is that we confirm your specific machine against the category before you book, and the practical is done on that machine.

A roll crusher squeezes material between rolls rather than smashing it with a jaw or a rotor, which gives a more controlled product size and fewer fines. If your machine is a jaw, cone or impact crusher then N207 Crusher is the right category and we will tell you so.

Two days for a novice, with three candidates to one instructor and one machine. An operator already running the machine takes the shorter test focused route, where NPORS allow six candidates, and the refresher is short as well. We confirm the length when we quote.

Because on a broadly described category it is the only way to be sure the card matches the machine. We would rather spend a phone call getting that right than issue a card that a site or an auditor later queries.

Because that is where processing plant hurts people. Running machines rarely injure anybody: the injuries happen when somebody clears a blockage, adjusts a setting or frees a jam without stopping, isolating, locking off and proving dead first.

For quarrying and processing work the traditional NPORS card is normally the right one and does not depend on a CITB test that expires separately. Where the same operators also work on construction sites they need the CSCS logo version, which requires a current CITB Health, Safety and Environment test.

Yes, and on this category it is strongly preferable. The training and the test are done on the machine your operators actually run, on the material they actually process, which is the only way the card reflects the job.

Three on the novice course and the refresher, six on the experienced worker test. Larger groups get sequenced across more than one course, because the ratio is what gives each operator real time on the machine.

NPORS courses are priced per course, not per person. What you are paying for is the instructor, the registered tester and the machine time, so the figure turns on four things: the category, which route your operators need (novice, experienced, conversion or refresher), how many people are coming, and whether we run it on your site or at one of ours. It is also why a squad works out considerably cheaper per head than sending operators out one at a time. Use the course builder on this page: tell it who is coming and it works out how many days the course takes and how many times it has to run, which is what the price is built from. Then ask us and you will get a figure for that exact group rather than a list price with conditions attached.

We run NPORS courses across the UK rather than out of one fixed centre, and for most categories the better answer is that we come to you: your operators are assessed on the machine they will be using anyway, nobody loses a day travelling, and for a group it costs less. If you would rather come to us, we have centres at Trent House in Stoke, Pride Park in Derby, Europa House in Manchester and Kingsway House in Liverpool. Tell us where the work is and we will say honestly which way round makes more sense.

There is no fixed timetable to wait for. NPORS courses here are run to order, which means the dates are built around your programme rather than ours, and a single operator or a full squad can normally be booked in within a couple of weeks. If you have a card about to expire or a start date to hit, say so when you enquire and we will work to it.