Working at Height Training Course
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require employers to ensure that a sufficient risk assessment is carried out so that all potential work at height risks are effectively identified, controlled and managed. Every employer must also ensure that employees are appropriately trained to ensure that they can carry out their work safely.
This Working at Height training course helps you to comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by providing employers and employees with the necessary information needed to be able to successfully deal with working at height risks and control measures. This includes an understanding of how to undertake a working at height risk assessment, how to use access equipment safely and how to ensure that employees can reduce their risk of falls from height. For persons who may or are working at height from ladders, scaffolds, step ladders or other mobile working platforms.
Who Should Take This Working at Heights Course?
Anyone who works at height in any place, including a place at or below ground level, is required to undertake training to prove that they are competent and safe in their work. Managers and supervisors who manage staff who work at or who purchase equipment for working at height.
It is the employer’s duty to ensure that this training is provided: Regulation 5 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 states that employers must ensure all employees engaged in any work at height activity must be competent to do so. This includes, but is not limited to, professions such as:
Gutter cleaning, Solar panel installation, Putting up displays, Minor roof work, Shelf stacking, Window cleaning, Unloading a vehicle, Machine maintenance, Excavations.