Heights Safety – Advanced

Course Content

The course focuses on:

• Hazards of height work and associated equipment.
• Legal requirements to provide and maintain a safe workplace.
• Types of safety harness and associated equipment.
• Characteristics, advantages and limitations of safety harnesses.
• Selection, checking, fitting and wearing of safety harness.
• Importance and value of rescue plans.
• Manufacturer’s specifications.
• Preparation for proprietary fall arrest installation with rescue plans.
• Anchor points selection, loading, checking/improvised and constructed anchors.
• Installation, use of and disestablishment of fall arrest systems.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the hazards associated with wearing a safety harness and associated equipment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of safety harnesses and associated systems and equipment.
• Check and fit a safety harness system.
• Use a safety harness system where a fall hazard exists at height.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the rescue plan to be activated in the event of a fall.
• Identify anchor points and prepare to install a temporary proprietary height safety system.
• Install horizontal and vertical temporary proprietary height safety systems.
• Use temporary proprietary height safety systems.
• Disestablish temporary proprietary height safety systems.

Course structure

The course is a combination of theoretical and practical sessions. Students are assessed continuously during the course.

Day 1: Harness safety and legislation
Day 2: Practical work at height

Prerequisites

US23229 is the pre requisite for US15757. You can achieve both during the course.

Assessment process

Theory assessment followed by practical assessment which takes place when student is ready/has shown that they can perform all tasks required. The practical consists of the installation of use of temporary proprietary height safety systems at a minimum height of 2 metres.

Additional unit

An additional unit standard 17600 can be available with this course. This may result in longer course duration due to an additional written assessment task. Contact Wood Training for details and costs. You will need to specifically request this additional assessment.

Revalidation/Refresher

To maintain current competency, it is recommended that refresher training occurs regularly. Depending on the industry you work in this may vary. Current Wood Training recommendation is every two years.

Items to bring

• Photo ID.
• Comfortable clothing suitable for participating in practical exercises.
• Covered-in footwear.

Health

Must be physically capable of climbing at height.