Who Should Attend?
- Construction workers required to use a safety harness on site
- Workers involved in roofing, scaffolding or steelwork
- Site supervisors overseeing work at height
- Anyone using fall-arrest or fall-restraint systems
What You Will Learn
- Legal requirements for working at height (Work at Height Regulations 2005)
- Types of safety harnesses and their applications
- Pre-use inspection of harnesses and lanyards
- Correct fitting and adjustment of a full-body harness
- Types of anchorage systems and how to use them
- Fall factors and the forces involved in a fall
- Rescue procedures and post-fall suspension trauma
- Maintenance, storage and when to retire equipment