Harness Training
Harness training ensures that workers can safely and effectively use harnesses while working at height. Our comprehensive training covers selecting the right harness, ensuring proper fit, using attachment points, and understanding fall arrest systems.
Harness Training
Harness training ensures that workers can safely and effectively use harnesses while working at height. Our comprehensive training covers selecting the right harness, ensuring proper fit, using attachment points, and understanding fall arrest systems.
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Course Overview
Harness training ensures that workers can safely and effectively use harnesses while working at height. Our comprehensive training covers selecting the right harness, ensuring proper fit, using attachment points, and understanding fall arrest systems. Participants will learn to inspect and maintain their harnesses, employ safe climbing and working techniques and execute emergency procedures in case of falls. This training is vital for preventing accidents, safeguarding workers, and complying with industry safety standards.
Who Should Attend:
Harness training on building sites is essential for a wide range of professionals to ensure safety and compliance with regulations.
This training is crucial for Construction Workers who perform tasks at heights, such as roofing, scaffolding, or steel erection, as they are directly exposed to fall hazards. Supervisors and Foremen also need harness training to oversee and enforce safety protocols effectively.
Maintenance and Repair Technicians, including those working on HVAC systems or performing window cleaning, require this training due to their frequent work in elevated positions.
Electricians and Plumbers who install or repair systems at heights must be trained to use harnesses safely.
Inspection and Quality Control Personnel, who often need to access high areas for evaluations, along with Demolition Workers handling structures that pose fall risks, also benefit from harness training.
Additionally, Rescue and Emergency Response teams need to be adept in harness use for conducting rescues at height.
Site Engineers and Project Managers, while not always working at heights, should understand harness safety to better supervise their teams and ensure comprehensive adherence to safety measures.
Overall, harness training is vital for anyone working in environments where falls are a potential risk, promoting a safer and more compliant work site.
What Will I Learn?
Harness training aims to equip participants with essential safety skills and knowledge.
The key learning outcomes include:
- Understanding Fall Protection:
- Grasp the importance and legal requirements of fall protection.
- Identifying Fall Hazards:
- Recognize and assess risks associated with working at heights.
- Proper Harness Use:
- Learn to correctly don, doff, and use various harness types
- Inspection and Maintenance:
- Inspect and maintain harnesses and fall protection equipment.
- Anchorage and Connections:
- Identify secure anchorage points and properly attach harnesses.
- Fall Arrest Systems:
- Understand and set up fall arrest components like lanyards and lifelines.
- Emergency Procedures:
- Implement emergency response and rescue plans.
- Practical Application:
- Gain hands-on experience and practice real-life scenarios.
Upcoming Course Dates
Please enquire for details of forthcoming training dates and options for in-house training
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