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HEIGHT SAFETY,
FALL ARREST,
HEIGHT RESCUE COURSES
Safety requirements for working at heights, safety, fall arrest, and height rescue courses, Elite Training, is your answer with one- and two-day course options available:

Basic Height Safety Course: $295.00 + GST
Full Height Safety & Fall Arrest Course: $550.00 + GST

COURSE AIM

To share knowledge and improve the awareness of hazards at heights. Additionally, we set up and implement appropriate fall restraint or fall arrest systems to improve work and safety when working at heights.

Full Course Details

Find below all the information you’ll need to make an informed decision about this course.

Benefits

Many clients respond favourably after the training and comment on the course, sometimes even months afterwards. Workers often improve the safety standards in their working environment. Also noticed was increased productivity due to a combination of proper fall arrest system knowledge and a greater trust in the equipment. When employees trust their equipment, they naturally concentrate more on the work.

Duration

Depending on the course/NZQA unit standards, the duration of our working at heights course is as follows:

Basic Height Safety Course:

This one-day course covers Unit Standard 17600: Explain Safe Work Practices for Working at Height. Cost: $295 + GST (including NZQA credits).

Full Height Safety Course:

Previously known as the Fall Arrest Course, this training comprises two full days, from 08:00 to 17:00. Additional time may be required for site-specific or specialist rescue training. The course is specifically written to include the contents of the following Unit Standards:

  • 17600: Explain Safe Work Practices for Working at Height (one-day course when conducted by itself).
  • 23229: Use a Harness for Personal Fall Protection When Working at Height (a prerequisite for 15757 and 25045).
  • 15757: Use, Install, and Disestablish Proprietary Fall Arrest System When Working at Height (full course is $550 + GST, including NZQA credits).

Elective Unit Standard (a small fee may be charged to register these extra credits).

  • 25045: Employ Height Safety Equipment in the Workplace (can be run in the place of 15757 in the two-day course).

What is involved?

Our working at heights training has been designed to give trainees the appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge and awareness of height-specific hazards, including:

  • The Health & Safety at Work Act 2015, associated regulations and guidelines for Working at Height, and precisely what it means.
  • Hazards Associated with Different Height Work (for example, roofers, scaffolders, window cleaners, construction workers, builders, maintenance workers, and inspectors).
  • Equipment associated with safely working at heights in various situations.
  • Hierarchy of fall arrest and restraint.
  • Fall distances versus forces exerted on the body.
  • Suspension trauma.
  • Isolation of height hazards versus minimisation (signage, policies, and PPE).

Fall Arrest Equipment Use and Maintenance

This course also covers an extensive range of fall arrest equipment and its appropriate use and maintenance. It includes the need for a rescue plan and the basic requirements for rescue in all working-at-height situations. Following the theoretical elements, trainees then move on to the practical phase. They receive a Working at Heights Certificate upon successful completion of the training.

The practical component of the course covers the following:

  • The checking, fitting of, and working in various fall arrest and rope access harnesses.
  • Checking standard height safety equipment for serviceability.
  • Designing and setting up a suitable fall arrest system for a given situation.
  • Working safely on a fall arrest system set up by the trainee.
  • Designing and setting up a fall arrest system with a pre-set rescue system.
  • Implementation and working on a fall arrest system.
  • Conducting a self-rescue and assisted rescues on and from various fall arrest systems.

Prerequisites:

The trainee must not have any blood circulation issues or infections of major organs –for example, low blood pressure or bladder and kidney infections. All trainees will work in harnesses and be suspended for a short period to give them an understanding of the requirements for a rescue system to be in place at all times. Circulation issues can lessen the time taken for ‘suspension trauma’ (orthostatic intolerance) to make the person lose consciousness and not be capable of self-rescue.

Suspension Trauma

Contrary to common belief, suspension trauma is gravity causing blood to pool in an injured person’s legs, reducing oxygenated blood to the brain. This could occur when a person is suspended in a harness when their legs can’t push against the ground (or another surface) to pump the blood back to the upper body.

In the lower body, the muscles ‘squeeze’ the veins to push the blood back up. This is the same reason that a soldier will pass out on a parade ground if they forget to wiggle their toes and slowly move up and down on the balls of their feet. The technical term for this is orthostatic intolerance.

The time drawn in the sand for this is ten minutes, although it has been proven that passing out may take 15 to 40 minutes. The detailed time for a rope access worker to rescue a suspended worker is ten minutes. This rule is for working at heights in NZ forms part of AS/NZS4488(1 and 2): 1997 (Industrial Rope Access), and is in the National Certificate in Rope Access

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