TRAINING


have trained as an operator, then three years later you need to have refresher training, so that is a regular thing. That is a legal requirement in the PUWER Regulations. Operators, of course, get daily experience of their job, but they can forget one or two things, or technology progresses, and they need to keep up to date. “What we do is provide delegates with an official training course and at the end of it, with the certificate that says they are competent to operate the machine. We cover the LOLER requirements, the PUWER requirements, and BS 7121.” LOLER is the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, which is more specifically oriented towards lifting operations than PUWER; both of them apply. BS 7121 is the Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Cranes. “We have also recently become IPAF accredited. IPAF is the International Powered Access Federation, which is all about using scissor lifts and cherry pickers. We train people in the operation of those as well,” Robbins says. “For all of those on all of our courses, we


try to make sure that we are not just satisfying the standard but are actually above it. We train people for every different type of crane,” adds Robbins. “The novice course lasts two days; the first day will be in the classroom, the second will be practical, working the cranes. The refresher course is one day. For that refresher, every


Students and instructors at Konecranes’ training centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire.


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