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Browns Ladders Safety Training Courses
Accidents due to ignorance of health and safety procedures cost British industry millions of pounds per annum. Browns Ladders are here to make sure it’s not a risky business and are pleased to offer you the following training courses and help you to comply with health and safety laws.
All our training courses can be carried out on site.
Available Safety Training Courses
Safe Use & Pre Use Inspection of Ladder & Steps
The Safe Use and Pre-Use Inspection of Ladders & Steps is designed to equip operators of mobile access equipment with the skills to conduct Pre-Use Inspections and to recognise and eliminate the dangers of incorrect usage.
BLA (Ladder Association) Accredited Course
Similar to the In house ladder and steps course, this full day training programme has the added benefit of expanded risk assessment practical exercises and full accreditation. Delegates will receive a British Ladder Association Photocard ID & certificate.
Safe Use of Towers, Ladders & Steps
The following course has been carefully designed to provide instruction on the safe use of mobile access equipment; mobile towers, ladders, steps and low-level access systems.
The new Work at Height Regulations requires that the installation or erection of Mobile Access Towers should only be carried out by, or under the supervision of, a competent person. Such a person is someone considered to have the training, technical knowledge or experience as may be appropriate having regard to the nature of the activity.
This course comes with a photocard ID provides proof that you have undergone and successfully completed training to a nationally recognised standard. Many work places will insist on seeing your photocard before you will be allowed to assemble, move or dismantle mobile access towers.
The work at height regulations apply to all work at height where these is a risk of fall liable to cause personal injury. The regulations bring together all existing work at height regulation and state the minimum health and safety requirements for the use of equipment for work at height. Employers have a duty to ensure that work at a height is properly planned, appropriately supervised and carried out in a manner that is safe.
Safe Use and Pre-Use Inspection of Harnesses
The Safety Harness Course will give candidates with the knowledge to inspect, fit and use harnesses and Lanyards safely and correctly whilst working at height.
Take a look at this! (Sun Newspaper June 2008)
A school caretaker has successfully sued Hampshire County Council after he was injured falling off a stepladder.
Anthony Gower-Smith, 73, fell off the 6ft (180cm) stepladder at Awbridge Primary School in Romsey in 2004.
In court, he claimed his employer had not shown him how to use the ladder. The council denied negligence. However, Mr Gower-Smith won his case (27 June) on the basis the council was 75% to blame. His compensation will now be assessed. Mr Gower-Smith, who had made a claim for £50,000, suffered a fractured skull, fractured cheek bone and kidney injuries in the fall, leading to treatment in intensive care. He has not been able to work since the accident. Hampshire County Council said the caretaker was given adequate training and equipment to do the job.
The authority said Mr Gower-Smith signed an induction training sheet in 2002 on starting the job to show he had received training to use stepladders.At the time a health and safety report said the council was not at fault and the council claimed that Mr Gower-Smith had positioned the ladder improperly before overbalancing.
At London's High Court, Recorder Christopher Moger QC, said Mr Gower-Smith's training was deficient. Mr Gower-Smith knew he should not go on to the top platform of the ladder but did so and, by doing so, increased the likelihood of it overturning. "Notwithstanding his self-confidence and readiness to trust in his own judgement, I find that his lack of training was responsible for his lack of awareness of the extent of the danger posed and therefore the accident itself," said Moger.
