This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to work safely on construction sites where the worker has the potential to fall from one level to another.
This unit of competency does not cover the erection of scaffold or work platforms, but it does include identifying and reporting common faults with scaffold or work platform systems.
Duration
3.5 Hours
Fees
$280
Delivered on site or offsite
Depending on industry requirements, accessibility and numbers
The course will be delivered via a face to face format in either DNA Kingston Training rooms or at your workplace, depending on numbers, client requirements and training facilities.
Locations of training rooms include: Busselton, Bunbury and Belmont (Perth)
Minimum and maximum participant numbers apply.
This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to work safely on construction sites where the worker has the potential to fall from one level to another.
This unit of competency does not cover the erection of scaffold or work platforms, but it does include identifying and reporting common faults with scaffold or work platform systems.
Work at heights is undertaken in a range of construction work, including new construction, renovation, refurbishment and maintenance.
This unit also applies to workers in other industries who need to control the two separate risks associated with people and objects falling from heights.
Completion of the general construction induction training program, specified in the Safe Work Australia model Code of Practice: Construction Work, is required by anyone carrying out construction work. Achievement of CPCCWHS1001Prepare to work safely in the construction industry meets this requirement.
Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit of competency in some states and territories. For further information, check with the relevant regulatory authority.
Assessment locations
Assessment maybe at the work place or simulated conditions that replicate operational workplace conditions
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Identify task requirements. |
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Read work order and associated drawings and consult with relevant persons to determine the proposed work-at-heights task, including where and how work is to be carried out, and the equipment or plant to be used. |
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Participate in the development of the safe work method statement (SWMS) for the specified task. |
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Select appropriate work-at-heights control measures including required fall restraint devices and/or fall arrest devices in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements. |
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Determine location of anchor points for harness-based work to safely access required work area. |
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Review completed SWMS and clarify issues with relevant persons. |
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Access and assess work area. |
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Select personal protective equipment (PPE), check for serviceability and report problems. |
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Identify unstable, fragile or brittle work surfaces and implement control measures to prevent a fall from height. |
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Check fall protection equipment, including required fall restraint and fall arrest devices to ensure serviceability and report problems. |
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Identify, select and install signage and barricade equipment in accordance with SWMS or relevant safe work procedure. |
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Install/fit fall protection equipment, including fall restraint devices and fall arrest devices as appropriate, within the limitations of licensing requirements, level of authority and SWMS. |
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Ensure required fall protection, scaffold and barriers have been adequately installed and where necessary certified, in accordance with regulatory and workplace requirements. |
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Connect to fall protection equipment, including temporary anchor points, without being exposed to a risk of a fall from height. |
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Consult with relevant persons to confirm fall protection equipment and safety systems are correctly fitted, adjusted and installed, and are appropriate to the task. |
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Access work area safely and move and place tools, equipment and materials using methods that eliminate or minimise the risk of falling objects. |
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Conduct work tasks. |
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Undertake work tasks in compliance with the SWMS and workplace requirements. |
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Traverse between anchor points while remaining connected to the fall prevention system and protected from a risk of a fall from height. |
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Use PPE appropriate to the task and in accordance with manufacturer requirements. |
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Maintain communication with relevant persons while working at height. |
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Keep fall protection equipment in place and adjust to allow for movement during work. |
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Keep fall prevention equipment adjusted to prevent falling off or through a structure using the restraint technique. |
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Keep scaffold/work platform components and fall barriers in place during work. |
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Monitor control measures and consult with relevant persons to respond to changing work practices or site conditions. |
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Exit from work area removing tools and materials in compliance with worksite procedures, safety and environmental requirements. |
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Entry Requirements
CPCCWHS2001 Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry
Participants will be required to successfully complete an LLN assessment to confirm numeracy, reading, writing and language skills at least to ACSF Level 3 prior to enrolment into their selected course.
It is a requirements that participants wishing to attend this training be able to:
- enter and exit the work location safely and unaided
- have adequate mobility to be able to enter restricted /darkened work areas
- be able to conduct manual handling activities involving movement of persons
- have adequate mobility, eyesight and hearing to be able to observe their surrounding work area in all directions during activities.
Assessment requirements
Assessment will require a theory component and practical demonstration
Participants will undertake a theory assessment and a practical demonstration. The theory assessment consists of multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions, with a practical demonstration of skills to be observed. The practical assessment requires participants to demonstrate competence of this unit, including conducting CPR for a scenario provided.
Clothing requirements
- Steel cap boots
- Long pants
- Longs sleeve shirt
CPCCCM2012 – Work safely at heights
To demonstrate competency in this unit, a candidate must meet the elements and performance criteria by working safely at heights above 2 m on three occasions, using different fall protection equipment/devices on each occasion.
One occasion must include a restraint technique (anchor point) system with a minimum of three anchor points.
The candidate must access the work area, traverse between anchor points and exit from the work area.
- Learner resources and guides
- Assessment material theory and practical
- Appropriate equipment
- Power points
- Videos
- Protective personal equipment and Hi- Vis Vest, hardhat and other PPE currently used in industry for performing rescues from a live LV panel
- Documentation may include workplace requirements, relevant industry standards, equipment specifications and operation manuals to meet specific site needs of industry.
Learning and assessment materials, along with power points which can be accessed online as required.
Support of face to face Trainer