Duration
One day (7 hours Driver CPC module available)
Group Size
Maximum 8 learners
Who should attend
Experienced Staff – If you have experienced staff, they will need to attend a one day training and assessment programme for unit 680: Health and Safety. This is followed by an assessment day using a winter service vehicle appropriate to the category being assessed New or Inexperienced Staff – If you staff have little or no winter service experience, they will need to attend a one day training and assessment programme for unit 680: Health and Safety. This will be followed by a 1 day training programme using the vehicle that they will be required to operate for the assessment. Training is followed by an assessment day using a winter service vehicle appropriate to the category being assessed
Course aims
This award is aimed at Winter Service Operators and staff responsible for the direct supervision and operating of: • Highways Agency vehicles and snow blowers • National Assembly for Wales winter service vehicles and snow blowers • Local Authority vehicles and snow blowers • Supervisors responsible for the front line operations.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the training and assessment the learners will have an understanding of:
- Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
- Management of Health & Safety at Work regulations
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment regulations
- Personal Protective Equipment regulations
- Manual Handling regulations
- Noise at Work regulations
- First Aid at Work regulations
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences regulations
- The Health & Safety (safety, signs and signals) regulations
- Winter maintenance risk assessment
- Working practices
- Duties of driver and pre-start checks
- Use of driver and pre-start checks
- Use of de-icing materials on the highway
- Emergency procedures
- Snow ploughing
- Loading plant
- Vehicle familiarisation
- Plough fitting – theory
Course Content: The qualification is divided into various categories of winter service vehicles. In order to qualify for the award, an operative must pass Unit 680: Health and Safety and at least one other unit. In order to qualify for the award, a supervisor must pass Unit 621: Winter Service Supervision and Monitoring.
Certification: On successful completion of the required Certificate Pathway Routes (CPR’s) and when a certificate has been received, learners will be eligible to obtain a NEREO operative or supervisor’s registration card, endorsed with the category that the candidate has been successfully assessed for. All 6159 certificates issued and Registration cards will only be valid for 5 years from the date of successful completion of a full qualification
This course can also be completed as a Driver CPC (Certficate of Professional Competence) Module – for more details click link below
https://www.utstraining.co.uk/portfolio/driver-cpc-certificate-of-professional-competence/
NB: Learners who are qualified in a higher category vehicle are not automatically qualified to drive lower category vehicles. Learners should be assessed for each category of winter service vehicle they are expected to operate
