Training on Work at Heights
GWO / IPAF / GTRM / Structures Access / Rope Access / Confined Spaces Access / Scaffolding
Courses list
Structures Access and Rescue
Structures Access and Rescue
- Programme: legislation, regulation and directives; European and Portuguese standards; fall-arrest PPE; knots and anchorages; CPE - vertical and horizontal lifelines (fixed and temporary); fall-arrest PPE maintenance; specific needs for Work at Heights; vertical and horizontal progression on structures; rescue at heights procedures: self-rescue and others rescue.
- Length: 16 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
Structures Access and Lifelines
Structures Access and Lifelines
- Programme: legislation, regulation and directives; European and Portuguese standards; fall-arrest systems and components; knots and anchorages; CPE - vertical and horizontal lifelines (fixed and temporary); fall-arrest PPE maintenance; specific needs for Work at Heights; vertical and horizontal progression on structures and roofs.
- Length: 8 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
Confined Spaces Access
Confined Spaces Access
- Programme: legislation, regulation and directives; European and Portuguese standards; fall-arrest PPE; knots and anchorages; CPE - vertical and horizontal lifelines (fixed and temporary); CPE for access to confined spaces; fall-arrest PPE maintenance; specific needs for Work at Heights; confined spaces works' processes; progression on structures and inside confined spaces; rescue procedures using hoist and quadripod.
- Length: 16 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
Rope Access - Level I
Rope Access - Level I
- Programme: legislation, regulation and directives; European and Portuguese standards; fall-arrest PPE and CPE; knots and anchorages; fall-arrest PPE maintenance; specific needs for Work at Heights through rope access; rope access manoeuvres - ascending/descending on ropes, rope transition, splitting and progression on ceiling; rescue procedures of vitims on descender.
- Length: 16 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
Global Wind Organisation (GWO)
Basic Safety Training (BST)
Advanced Rescue Training (ART)
Basic Safety Training (BST)
Work at Heights
- Programme: legislation, regulation and directives; harnesses; fall prevention; fall-arrest systems; fall-arrest personal protection equipment; falling objects; musculoskeletal injuries prevention; suspension trauma; emergency procedures; PPE pre-using verification; equipment and rescue manoeuvres; practical demos.
- Length: 16 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
First Aid
- Programme: managing an incident at a wind farm; primary examination of the victim; first aid on severe and emergent victims; first aid on relevant incidents; practical demos.
- Length: 8 hours (initial course) / 4 hours (refresh).
Fire Awareness
- Programme: applied legislation and standards; phenomenology of combustion; extinguishing methods; fire prevention; equipment for fire extinguishing in a wind turbine; approaches to a fire.
- Length: 4 hours.
Manual Handling
- Programme: injuries and clinical signs of manual handling; warm-up exercises; manual handling principles; practical demos.
- Length: 4 hours.
Enhanced First Aid
- Programme: international and national legislation; hazards and risks; human anatomy; response to catastrophies, accidents and crisis; primary examination of the victim; secondary examination of the victim; pain relief medication; medical telecommunication; practical demos.
- Length: 21 hours (initial course) / 14 hours (refresh).
Advanced Rescue Training (ART)
Hub, Spinner and Inside Blade Rescue
- Programme: rescue and evacuation plan; musculoskeleton injuries prevention measures; cervical stabilization and immobilization of the victim; rescue and evacuation systems; rescue from Blade - Hub (GWO-ART Hub Rescue); rescue from Spinner - Hub (GWO-ART Hub Rescue).
- Length: 7 hours.
Nacelle, Tower and Basement Rescue
- Programme: rescue and evacuation plan; musculoskeleton injuries prevention measures; cervical stabilization and immobilization of the victim; rescue and evacuation systems; rescue from Nacelle to the Base of the Tower (GWO-ART Nacelle Rescue); rescue from Enclosed Space (GWO-ART Nacelle Rescue); rescue from Crawl Space; rescue from Rescue Up.
- Length: 14 hours.
Single Rescuer: Hub, Spinner and Inside Blade Rescue
- Conteúdo Programático: rescue and evacuation plan; musculoskeleton injuries prevention measures; cervical stabilization and immobilization of the victim; rescue and evacuation systems; Single Rescue from Blade - Hub (GWO-ART Hub Rescue); Single Rescue from Spinner - Hub (GWO-ART Hub Rescue).
- Length: 4 hours.
Single Rescuer: Nacelle, Tower and Basement Rescue
- Programme: rescue and evacuation plan; musculoskeleton injuries prevention measures; cervical stabilization and immobilization of the victim; rescue and evacuation systems; Single Rescue from Nacelle to the Base of the Tower (GWO-ART Nacelle Rescue); Single Rescue from Enclosed Space (GWO-ART Nacelle Rescue); Single Rescue Crawl Space; Single Rescue from Rescue Up.
- Length: 4 hours.
Mobile Network Working Group (GTRM) / Telecom
UFCD 10674: Safety on Access and Intervention on Networks and Mobile Networks Infrastructures
- Programme:
- General prevention principles: proactive safety attitudes; legal framework; duties/obligations of managers and workers; work accidents and labour diseases; hazards identification; risks' evaluation and control; control measures (hazards and risks); safety signalization; collective protection equipment (CPE) and personal protection equipment (PPE).
- Safe work procedures; work authorization; building site directive - safety plan and safety coordination, safety procedures sheet, emergency plans, technical compilation.
- Work equipment directive: legal obligations; periodical and daily inspections; maintenance and training; equipment mechanical consignment; mechanical handling.
- Activity relevant risks: physical (electromagnetic fields, manual handling); chemical; biological.
- First Aid - basic concepts at labour site: Medical Emergency Integrated System (INEM); general principals of first aid; intoxication, haemorrhages, wounds, burns, stings from bees, seagulls and crawling animals; injuries and trauma on head, neck or torax, bones, muscules and joints; suspension trauma; precordial pain and cerebral vascular accident - clinical signs; survival chain; Basic Life Support; Lateral Safety Position; airflow clearence; suspension trauma; emergency procedures.
- Work at Heights - Towers and Posts - Planning and organization of the work at height: legislation, regulation and directives; typology of mobile networks' infrastructures; metal structures and towers; roofs, rooftops and portable ladders; risk assessment on work at heights; working prodecures and safety perimeter; electromagnetic radiation; emergency plan (rescue and first aid). PPE and personal fall-arrest protection systems: PPE (selection, inspection and maintenance); PPE verification; CPE - Collective Protection Equipemt (lifelines - characteristics, typology, conservation, handling, verification and maintenance); restriction systems; positioning systems; fall-arrest system; maintenance. Knots and anchorage devices: performing knots and fundamental anchorages, and anchorage devices (characterization and knowledge). Vertical and horizontal lifelines: fixed and temporary; track, rail and steel cable; temporary anchorages on rope, strap or steel cable. Access, progression and positioning techniques on structures: horizontal and vertical progression with rope or Y lanyard (structures); work position with adjustable positioning rope; towers and posts (progression on metal structures and work positioning). Manual handling - force demultiplying: simple demultiplying (pulley + blocker); load lifting through demultiplying systems 2:1 / 3:1 / 5:1.
- Work at Heights - Roofs and Rooftops - Ladder usage (fixed and mobile): progression on fixed ladder with and without lifeline, use of mobile ladder. Protection equipment - fixed and horizontal lifelines: lifelines - characteristics, typology, conservation, handling, verification and maintenance. Usage of temporary lifeline - selection of appropriate fall-arrest system: assemblage e usage of temporary lifeline, work on fall-arrest and fall-arrest restriction systems, usage of retractable fall-arrester. Practical applications of fundamental knots: performing knots and fundamental anchorages. Emergency plan (rescue and first aid).
- Rescue on infrastructures: selection of rescue equipment; rescue plans; assemblage and usage of rescue devices; assemblage and usage of reversible equipment; procedures in case of accident.
- Length: 50 hours.
UFCD 10673: Safety on Access and Rope Rescue on Mobile Network Infrastructures
- Programme:
- Planning and organizing the work at height - Rope access: legislation, regulation and directives; European and Portuguese standards; general prevention principles; risk analysis on vertical work at heights - basic concepts of physics applied to work at heights; work procedure and safety perimeter (procedure in case of accident); internal emergency plan (rescue and first aid).
- Equipment for rope access and positioning: fall-arrest PPE (selection, inspection and maintenance); PPE verification (importance of PPE materials and its maintenance); PPE used on work at heights: standards, characteristics, equipment appropriated maintenance, storage and control of PPE; CPE - Collective Protection Equipment; Fall-arrester for rope; blockers/ascenders; descenders; ropes/connectors; work seat.
- Knots and anchorages: anchorage systems (typical anchorages used on rope access); advanced level knots.
- Rope access manoeuvres: assemblage of working and safe ropes; short climb (with descender); climb/descent (with blocker and switch to descender); drifts (simple/double); knot transition; vertical obstructions on corners; passage of rope protection.
- Rope progression techniques: progression on fixed ropes on descent - technical aspects - descent (rappel); progression on fixed ropes on climb - technical aspects - climb (jumar).
- Rescue on structures and suspension: rescue devices for rope systems (performing rescues on site with supervision); rescue on infrastructures; procedures in case of accident; first aid techniques in the scope of work accidents.
- Length: 25 hours.
Lifting Platforms (IPAF)
Operator
- 3A (scissors)
- 3B (telescopic)
- 3A+3B
- 1B (on vehicle)
- Programme:
- Introduction - facilities, objectives, resume of PAL card, health and physical clearence declaration, and theoretical test prior to course.
- Legislation and directives.
- ISO 18878, European standard 89/655/EEC– 95/63/EEC (art. 7 and art. 5) (for Portugal, NP ISO 18878, European standard 89/655/EEC – 95/63/EEC (art. 7 e art. 5)).
- EN 280- Mobile elevating work platforms - Design calculations - Stability criteria - Construction - Safety - Examinations and tests (it is necessary to maintain this standard just for courses teached to instructors).
- Portugal: Juridical Regime for the Promotion of Health and Safety at Work: Lei n.º 102/2009 de 10 de Setembro com a redação dada pela Lei 3/2014 de 28 de Janeiro de 2014.
- Portugal: Defines the rules to which should obey the implementation in the market and operation beginning of machines and semi-machines: Decreto-Lei n.º 103/2008 de 24 de Junho.
- Portugal: Work Equipment directive - Minimum prescriptions for the health and safety of workers using PPE: Decreto-Lei n.º 348/93.
- Portugal: Minimum health and safety prescriptions for workers using work equipments. Decreto-Lei nº 50/2005.
- Mobile Working Lifting Platforms' categories: different groups/types of platforms, description of each, and other available courses.
- Mobile Working Lifting Platforms' categories: stabilization, levelling, plugging options on chassis, spinning table, pantographic/arm/spear group and selection of platforms.
- Familiarisation and pre-usage verification: familiarisation, pre-usage verification, pre-usage battery verification, controls and safety devices, defects and emergency descent.
- Safe operation procedures and risks: movement and displacement, assemblage, operation, parking and refuelling.
- Training/practical demo.
- Length: 8 hours (each operator class).
Basic Safety Training (IEP)
Basic Safety Training
- Programme: pro-active safety attitudes; general safety principles (risk assessment, PPE and CPE, safety signalling); safe work procedures (Work Authorizations and Consignations); work with special risks (work at heights, electricity, on road, trenches and excavations, tunnels and galleries); machines and work equipment; manual handling; fire awareness; chemical agents (hazardous substances and preparations); physical agents (noise and vibration); work accidents and professional disease.
- Length: 14 hours.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding Assembly and Disassembly
- Programme: Legal framework and responsabilities; work-related hazards and risks; collective and personal protection equipment; scaffolding systems and their components; scaffolding assembly and safety procedures; scaffolding safe assembly and disassembly.
- Length: 16 hours.
Scaffolding Inspection and Certification
- Programme: Legal framework and responsabilities; collective and personal protection equipment; scaffolding systems, components and assembly procedures; verification points on scaffolds.
- Length: 8 horas.
Forklifts
Forklifts Operator
- Programme: the need for a forklift operator course; legislation, regulation and directives; constructive standards, components and nomenclature; interpretation of factory technical information; load diagrams; capacity, lifting and stabilisation; equipment care and maintenance; identification, classification and application of different machines; general working principles; general rules of equipment usage; safety on using forklifts; operating with pedestrianised driving machines, frontal, retractable and telescopic forklifts (like Manitou, JCB and others); general maintenance principles for general, restrictive and specific traction batteries; final demo with available forklifts, including driving and performing manoeuvres.
- Length: 16 hours (initial course) / 8 hours (refresh).
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