Working at Height Training

Product Description

This course is for anyone who undertakes work at height or employers who have employees that work at height regularly.This includes people working on platforms, scaffolds, stages, or ladders, and even alongside deep trenches. The risk to working at height is not just the distance of your fall, but also of your equipment that might harm anyone else below.

According to statistics, the number of workers fatally injured in 2014-2015 is 142, with a rate of fatal injury of 0.46 deaths per 100,000 workers. A downward trend took place during the last 5 years. It is the responsibility of an employer to ensure the safety of his employees, and it is the employee’s accountability to avoid risks of fatality and injury at all cost as it is reasonably practical, especially when assigned to working on high ground. The perils of working at heights involve falling from a ladder or a flat roof or areas above ground/floor level, toppling into an opening in a floor or a hole in the ground, and dropping from an edge through an opening surface.

The factors that should be considered by employers or employees in avoiding fatality and injuries in working at heights include not only preventing falls and harnessing the workers with adequate and right equipment, but correspondingly minimizing the distance of the fall where the hazard cannot be disregarded. This case of work does not only put threat to the safety of the employee but also to the people who work or pass by on the ground below, who may be struck by falling objects or equipment used. Furthermore, it is the duty of the employer to assess the employee’s competence to work on a high ground prior to the work.

Health and Safety Legislation covers working at height situations according to the Work at Height Regulations of 2005.

• The dangers of working at heights
• Regulations of working at heights
• Hierarchy of control
• Assessing risk