PRE-REQUISITES: NONE

COURSE SUMMARY

The purpose of a Working at Heights training program is to:

• Strengthen workplace safety culture by elevating the profile and importance of preventing falls from heights
• Provide workers who may be exposed to the hazard of falling with adequate knowledge about fall hazards and general safety practices to work safely at heights
• Provide workers who use personal fall protection equipment with sufficient knowledge about its purpose and use
• Reduce the number of fall-from-heights incidents, injuries, and fatalities

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize working at heights hazards
• Explain the hierarchy of controls
• Discuss safe work plans
• Identify and assess when ladders are appropriate
• Explain proper inspection, care, and use of ladders
• Describe types of warning methods and physical barriers
• Identify when warning methods and physical barriers are required
• Discuss limitations, application, and storage of different fall protection systems
• Calculate fall distances
• Demonstrate how to inspect the equipment, don and doff of a harness, and maintain 100% tie-off
• Select the appropriate fall protection equipment when working on a platform

Following the theory part of the program, there will be a practical evaluation completed. This consists of a facilitator observing the trainee donning and doffing the harness as well as use equipment as it is designed.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Supervisors, lead hands, workers, and health and safety committee members/ representatives who work at heights on Industrial sites with fall hazards.