PPE Inspection & Maintenance Course
Keeping your life-preserving equipment in good order
One-day course from $295 + GST
Two-day course from $550 + GST
Practical PPE inspection and maintenance skills
Learn to inspect and maintain height safety and confined space equipment, recognise damage and wear, and keep clear equipment records.
Training combines manufacturers’ instructions with practical equipment knowledge, delivered by trainers who use this equipment in their own work. Choose a one-day option for experienced operators or a two-day course for those needing more equipment familiarisation.
Course for experienced operators
Duration: One day
For those that have previous heights or confined space qualifications (experience with technical equipment), this course can be run over one day. Contact our office to ensure the experience you have is suitable.
Course for new inspectors or new workers
Duration: Two days
For those new to the heights or confined space world, that need the understanding of what the items in the course actually do, the course will need to be run over two days. Other ways to get around the knowledge gap is to have this course follow-on from an advanced working at heights course, or an advanced confined space course
The course covers unit standard 19359: Inspect and Maintain Height Safety Equipment.
Equipment covered
This course covers an extensive range of heights equipment, from harnesses and fall arrest equipment, through to advanced rope access equipment, and its appropriate use and maintenance. It is not just inspecting a harness and a carabiner!
Trainees will be presented with:
Rope
Back-up devices
Connectors of varying types
Slings
Helmets
Harnesses
Ascenders & descenders
Inertia reels (small types)
Other items on request
These Items will not only be inspected, but you will be performing maintenence on those items that require it.
The training not only focuses on the manufacturers’ instructions, but also the applicable standard around equipment maintenance (AS/NZS1891.4:2025 Personal equipment for work at height -selection, use and maintenance).
Our PPE Inspection course has been designed to give trainees the appropriate theoretical and practical knowledge to allow them to:
Identify specific working at height safety equipment.
Identify and interpret manufacturers’ instructions
Identify manufacturers’ maintenance specifications
Inspect and reject damaged or worn equipment
Carry out maintenance procedures in accordance with manufactures specifications
Record equipment in an equipment logbook
Record maintenance procedures in the logbook
Click here for a link to Singing Rock’s “Tech Info” poster
This course is provided through a contracting arrangement between the primary contract holder, Pacific Coast Technical Institute (PCTI), and its sub-contractor, Elite Training Services Limited.