FALL SAFE TRAINING®:
Building safety together!
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Competent Person
Accordingly to the EN 365:2004 the PPE periodical examination should be carried out by a competent person, which should be trained by a manufacturer.
In order to master the PPE periodical examination, FALL SAFE® programed a training action that has as purpose to give the knowledge of the aspects that should be verified when inspecting a PPE.
The general objective of this course is to give to its participants the knowledge of the standard procedure of PPE inspections.
Recipients
Companies or organizations that carry out PPE inspection service or general workers and technicians with the function of inspecting PPE for work at height.
Specific Objectives
At the end of the training, trainees should be able to:
• Identify the main risks and causes associated to Work at heights.
• Identify the legal requirements to apply the CE marking according with the REGULATION (EU) 2016/425 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 March 2016
• Identify the harmonised standards applied to PPE destined to avoid falls from a height.
• Identify the various kinds of PPE and its characteristics.
• To apply the inspection procedures accordingly with the EN 365 harmonised standard and PPE type.
Program and Duration
This course lasts 8 hours and it will address the following topics:
• Risks associated to Work at Heights
• Legal requirements for CE marking
• Personal Protective Equipment against fall from heights
• Inspection and maintenance.
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First Aid
This course is suitable for people who work in high hazard environments such as construction, scaffolding and many others.
It is also ideal for organizations whose needs assessment identifies a requirement for additional first aid training (e.g. due to having employees with a disability or medical condition).
It gives learners the skills and confidence to respond to a range of accidents and first aid emergencies they could encounter in the workplace and contributes to minimize the consequences to the health of the workers which are victims of accidents or sudden diseases.
Recipients
Any worker from any business who wants to acquire the skills to perform first aid suitable for their work reality.
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Access to structures
Fall from height is one of the most frequent cause of accidents at work, originating a significant number of deaths and injuries.
Carrying out work at heights involve specific risks to the health and safety of workers and is necessary to take measures to guarantee that to those the necessary training is given about the risks that this kind of activity involves attending the used equipment and techniques.
FALL SAFE® developed this course: Access to structures with the purpose of giving its attendants the knowledge to enjoy a safe work when there is a need and responsibility for the execution of work at height in areas such as construction, maintenance and remodeling.
Recipients
Workers and/or organizations that carry on work at heights and have the necessity to use PPE and lifelines while performing it, for example, construction.
Specific Objectives
• To raise workers awareness for the risk envolved when performing work at height:
• To be able to use and understand the PPE against fall from heights;
• To know and apply techniques used to access structures.
Program and duration
This course lasts 8 hours and it will address the following topics:
• Risk associated to work at height;
• Colletive protective equipment and personal protective equipment;
• Work systems
• Practival exercises
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Access to confined spaces
The entrance into a confined space can involve a several amount of risks demanding, this way, that the work to be carried out should be previously planned.
In this way FALL SAFE® projected the training course: Access to Confined spaces with the purpose of giving to its attendants the knowledge to enjoy a safe work when there is the need and responsibility for the execution of work to be carried out in a confined space.
At the end of this training course the attendants should be capable of identifying a confined space and acknowledge, evaluate and control the existing risks, the correct functioning of the needed equipment and the procedure and usage of the entry permit.
Recipients
Workers and/or companies that perform work at height when accessing confined spaces, for example mines.
Specific Objectives
• To raise workers awareness for the risk involved when performing work in a confined space;
• To be able to use and understand the PPE against fall from heights;
• To know and apply standard safety procedures when accessing a confined space.
Program
• Define and characterize a Confined Space;
• Risk associated to work in a confined space;
• Confined Space working team;
• Entry permit;
• Collective protective equipment;
• Personal protective equipment;
• Work systems;
• Rescue plan;
• Practical exercises.
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Rope Access
This training action, promoted by FALL SAFE®, is programmed to enable companies to enjoy all the advantages offered by rope access:
- Rapid assembly and disassembly of the access system at the beginning and end of each working period;
- Practical solution, safe and more economical to carry out work at height compared to traditional access methods;
- Only method of access to certain work areas.
This training is destined to all those that have the responsability to carry out work at height in situations that invilve the usage of rope access techniques and is has as general objectives:- To enforce the procedures applied for the safety of work at height in the access by ropes;
- Correctly use personal and collective protective equipment for its operation and maintenance;
- Perform maneuvers using ropes.
Recipients
Workers and/or companies that perform work at height through rope access techniques, for example, wind turbines, painting, building and bridges contructions, and others.
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Access to communication towers (I and II)
In every work where the risk of a fall from height exists, its fundamental that the worker is aware of the risks to which he is exposed.
The contents of the course: Communication towers are directed to the access to communication towers and poles and every other structure that fist in this category.
The general objective of this training action is to give to all of those that work in this type of structure the knowledge of the criteria and safety standards that should be taken into account based on the techniques demonstrated by the trainer.
Recipients
Workers and/or companies that perform access to telecommunication towers or other activities within the same categorie, at height, through rope access or plataforms for example.
Objectives
• To raise workers awareness for the risk involved when performing work at height;
• To be able to use and understand the PPE against fall from heights;
• To know and apply techniques used to access telecommunication towers.
Program and Duration
This course lasts 16 hours and will address the following topics:
• Planning and organizing the work at heights;
• Physics concepts applied to pulleys system;
• Personal protective equipment;
• Knots;
• Anchor systems;
• Rescue kits.
• Practical exercises.
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Customized training
FALL SAFE® is an accredited entity that has all the resources, technic and organizational ability to develop all the processes related to training, assessment and official recognition accordingly with the quality referential for the training purpose.
The maturity of our trainers gives FALL SAFE® courses a strong practical component achieved through simulated practices and methodologies of approach oriented to practical problems encountered in the day-to-day.
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