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Working Group, which was formed with a primary focus of reviewing and creating mobile plant training programmes and schedules to decrease accidents, fatalities and near misses and to provide a safer, more structured working environment. HSE statistics consistently highlight the impact of mobile plant on accidents and near misses on waste sites. A significant cause has been the inconsistent quality and application of training standards for the safe use of mobile plant.
In essence, no-one should be allowed to drive (operate) a vehicle unless their employer has authorised them to do so in writing. In turn, the employer should not authorise a driver unless the driver has received adequate training and the employer is satisfied that the driver is competent to operate the vehicle. Further investigation determined that SMEs in particular are at a disadvantage and as they do not always have access to the same health and safety guidance and documentation as larger organisations.
The group identified a number of key factors to obtain maximum safety across the industry: • Access to free safety information and guidance;
• Obligation to training and the definition of competence;
• The responsibilities of managers, supervisors and operators;
• The criteria for theoretical and practical training;
• The standard of facilities, instructors and record keeping.
Following the guidance document produced for the industry, the WISH group has also created three more generic guidance documents that can be amalgamated into the training plan of many SME’s, which included: • Aims and objectives of a training course, what information can be a theoretical lesson and what is required to be practical (such as legal aspects, components of the equipment and their purposes, PPE, pre-start checks, safe mount and dismount, safety devices, loads, stability, attachments and correct shutdown);
• Testing and operators- guidance on the criteria of testing operatives on a piece of equipment;
• Pre-start checks and defect record keeping.
Group Chair, Chris James, on behalf of the WISH Forum, would like to thank the following committee members and their
companies for their time and resources: • Kevin Barcroft – Simply Waste Solutions
• Neil Brown – Johnson Aggregates • David Cooper – Suez • Rob Corrin – FCC Environment • Roy Cotterill – Veolia
• Denise McGlynn – Energy and Utility Skills
• Marc Owen – Viridor • Steve Parfitt – Mentor Training
The committee members contributed expert advice and materials to demonstrate what ‘best practice’ should look like.
The documentation produced will be available via the WISH Forum website (
https://wishforum.org.uk/) for all SMEs in the industry to use and follow ahead of mobile plant equipment being used.
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