The essential one-day MEWPs for Managers and supervisors course.

If you use mobile elevating work platforms, this course will explain what your responsibilities are – and what the regulations expect you to do.

Price

£190 members
£230 non-members

Dates

7 June 2012
10 July 2012

Designed for

Anyone who is responsible for planning or overseeing the use of MEWPs in any industry including construction, as well as other industries – retail, airports, leisure parks, industrial cleaning, tree surgery and numerous other sectors should take this course.

Course Content

The course covers all relevant legislation and standards and will ensure managers:

• Understand the different types of MEWPs and how to select the right one for the job
• Know exactly how to plan and supervise the use of MEWPs
• Can implement effective accident prevention and control strategies
• Understand operator training and familiarisation requirements
• Learn what factors to condisder before entering a hire contract
• Recognise how inspection, pre-use and the daily maintenance of machines is so important in helping to protect your organisation

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course and passing the written test, participants will receive an IPAF certificate which is proof that they have been trained to manage the use of MEWPs on site.

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 20121 was laid before Parliament on 5th March 2012 and came into force on 6th April 2012. So does this have any significance? Well, the answer is that it may have. For example, if you need to remove lower risk asbestos products, like asbestos cement flue pipes and asbestos gaskets, you may need to notify the HSE in advance of every job.

Why New Regulations?

The new Regulations are intended to resolve the issue that the UK’s domestic asbestos legislation was previously not fully compliant with the EU Asbestos Worker Protection Directive. This was raised with the European Commission by The Asbestos Removal Contractors Association, ARCA, and the Commission has instructed the UK to bring our law into line with the rest of Europe.

Changes to the Asbestos Regulations

Many parts of the 2012 Regulations are identical to the 2006 Regulations which they replace, for example HSE licenses are still required for high risk asbestos work. However, there are important changes in the case of certain Non-licensed work with asbestos.

If removal of the asbestos component requires breakage of the material, or if minor work is necessary on “friable materials” (those that crumble more easily – like asbestos insulating board) then new requirements are imposed. The contractor will have to:

• Notify the relevant enforcing authority before each job starts (Reg 9),

• Arrange for medical examinations of workers undertaking the work (Reg 22), and

• Keep registers of such work with asbestos (Reg 22). 

Three Classes of Work with Asbestos

The effect of these changes is that we now have 3 classes of work with asbestos:

• Fully licensed work permitted to be undertaken only by specialists.

• Non-licensed work on bonded materials which can be removed without damage or breakage.

• Non -licensed but notifiable work for strictly controlled work on friable materials or where deterioration of the material may occur during removal (deterioration is not defined in the Regulations). It seems that this will be called ‘NNLW’ – notifiable non-licensed work – in the future.

For further guidance on how to classify the above please see the HSE website http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/guidance/a0.pdf

¹The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/632/made

Click the links below for course details and booking form.

Asbestos Awareness

Non Licensed Asbestos Worker  

Course Planner 2012

Our training awards recognise and acknowledge individual company’s outstanding commitment to providing health and safety training for the benefit of its employees.

We are pleased to announce that our Beaumont Safety Trophy was awarded to Nationwide Platforms, for its pioneering anti-entrapment solution, the SkySiren. Our Chairman’s Special Award was awarded to Robert Hackett, Ferrovial Agroman, but was picked up by Phil Rowley.

Chairman’s Special Award

This award is in recognition and appreciation of valuable and outstanding services rendered to the Group.

The Beaumont Safety Trophy

The Beaumont Safety Trophy is awarded to one entrant each year in recognition of the best new working methods for the prevention of construction industry accidents. It is also judged to have best furthered the objectives of the Construction Health & Safety Group.

These objectives are:

• to improve occupational health and safety in the construction industry
• to foster co-operation between government, employees and those who work in the construction industry
• to study the health and safety training of the industry
• to provide training in response to the identified need

Eligibility for the competition is limited to individuals, companies, organisations or educational establishments whose business or activities are associated with the Construction industry.

We would also like to thank Philip White and the HSE for its continued commitment to promote the excellent training and work that the Group carries out, and our sponsors of the event for helping make it such a great success.

Our courses are at competitive prices and are specifically for UKCG requirements:

• One-day Health & Safety Awareness 
• SSSTS
• SMSTS
• Two-day SMSTS refresher

We are also seeking accreditation for the IOSH courses and will have these available shortly.

Phil Rowley’s presentation is available to view in our members section, and more information about UKCG’s Health & Training Standard can be found on the website.

£190 members
£230 non-members

INTRODUCTORY OFFER

£170 members
£200 non-members  

 The above prices include administration fee and course handout material

Dates

23 May 2012
21 June 2012
25 July 2012
15 August 2012
20 September 2012
23 October 2012
20 November 2012
5 December 2012

Designed for

This is for those who have entered, or are about to enter, the construction and civil engineering industry as a member of the workforce, to help them understand the potential hazards that they face at work or on site.

Aims and objectives

The course aims to ensure that individual responsiblities are understood:

• why they are carrying out their identified duties
• what is expected of them
• to ensure that they contribute to the safety of the work place

At the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• understand the need to prevent accidents
• have an understanding of health and safety law
• identify how their role fits into the control and management of the site
• appreciate the need for risk assessments and method statements
• appreciate the need to perform safely and to stop and ask for advise if not sure
• feel obliged to report unsafe acts to prevent an accident

Course content

• general responsibilities
• accident prevention and reporting
• health and welfare
• manual handling
• work at height
• personal protective equipment (PPE)
• first aid
• fire prevention
• electrical safety
• noise and vibration
• excavations and confined spaces
• safety signs and signal

Qualification/Certification

ConstructionSkills Site Safety Plus

Course Duration

1 day 

£250 member
£290  non-member 

Dates

20 March 2012
19 June 2012
26 September 2012

Designed for 

A one day course that specifically aimed at those persons on construction Sites who have to some extent responsibility for Fire Safety and basic Fire Risk Assessment.  Pre requisites to this course should be a basic knowledge of Fire Safety, although the content does include the combustion process, Fire Triangle and Fire Spread through buildings.

The course also focuses upon the on-site management of Fire Safety, with reference to the provision of a suitable means of escape, fire extinguishing systems and the handling and storage of dangerous/flammable goods on site.

Specific attention is given to the management of what is a constantly changing environment with regards to the safety of relevant persons in or about the construction site.  This is done by way of ongoing “Fire Risk Assessment”, the  identification of fire hazards and risks and the reduction of and management of those risks. 

Course Content   

The course content is detailed but purposely concise.  It has been specifically tailored to the Construction Industry.  Delegates will be encouraged to work in syndicates throughout this enjoyable course which will culminate in a short test.  

• Legal Requirements 
• ODPM Guidance documents and PAS 79 systems
• The Fire and Rescue Services  Act 2004 
• The Fire Safety Order 2005 
• The responsible person, meanings and duties 
• Powers of Inspectors – Enforcement Notices
• Fire theory – combustion process, heat smoke and fire travel, sources of ignition, and sources of combustion 
• Emergency and evacuation procedures
• Workplace fire safety inspections 
• The Fire Risk Assessment process  - 5 principal stages of Fire Risk Assessment
• Practical fire risk assessment includes area visit and completion of a PAS 79 style FRA document and a “report to senior managers” exercise  

Course Duration 

One day

We are now in a position to re-price our Site Safety Plus courses – please click on the links below for full course details: 

• SMSTS - NOW £585 
   

• SSSTS - NOW £285      

   

• 2-DAY REFRESHER - NOW £300