TRAINING
LEARN TOBE SAFE S
afety and training go hand in hand. A properly trained operator is likely to be a safe one. An untrained operator will almost certainly be dangerous. In, for example, a heavy industrial setting, the consequences of any failure in an overhead crane operation could bring about a major disaster, quite possibly with many deaths. Regulations about training, therefore, exist. In the UK PUWER, or the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, it states that, “All people using equipment at work must be adequately trained to ensure health and safety in its use, supervision or management”. It goes on to say that, “Some work activities
require detailed formal training but, for most everyday activities involving work equipment, adequate training can be delivered in-house using the manufacturer’s instructions and the background knowledge/skills of more experienced workers and managers.” That second sentence does not apply to heavy industrial hoists. “Turning up at a new job and being given an hour’s briefing by your predecessor is certainly not adequate for that,” says John Robbins. He is technical trainer at Konecranes’ UK training centre. The centre offers courses for crane operators, and for lifting and slinging, from their training centre in Banbury in Oxfordshire. “We can run
Any worker must be able to handle their equipment safely. Training is vital – and this is particularly true in heavy lifting. Julian Champkin reports.
the courses from there, or we can train at the client’s job-site,” he says. “That way, the delegate gets to learn on the very same crane, in the very same surroundings that he will be using in his career. It also means that we can integrate his company’s system of work into the training, to make sure that it is specific to what they want and at the same time adheres to the regulations. “We train around two to three hundred people a year and we also have 220 technicians based all around the country who come to us for training. We do novice training and refresher courses. I would say there is about a 50:50 split between them. Once you
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