Course Overview
The aim of the course is to provide candidates with the knowledge and information required to identify suitable means of safe access. This will include the safe and correct use of ladders and stepladders based upon an evaluation of the
work to be done, theduration of the task, the working environment, its constraints and the capability of the person carrying out the task.
Course Content
The course covers the following key topics:
- Legislation
- Inspection checks and 12 Point Ladder Safety Checklist
- Faulty design of access structure
- Inappropriate selection where safer alternatives could have been used
- Subsidence for failure of base support
- Structural failure of suspension system
- Structural failure through overloading
- Structural failure through poor erection
- Structural failure through over balancing and reaching
- Climbing while carrying loads
- Slippery footing, wrong footwear
- Entrapment by moving parts
- Injury in transit
- The dangers of electricity, hydraulic, air, gas and steam pipes
- Unauthorised usage
- Safe erection and use
Certification
· On successful completion of this course, delegates will receive a NETA certificate
Course details
Course code
Duration
Half a day
Where
NETA – Stockton
Course information
· No previous knowledge required
