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 | | WORK AT HEIGHT COURSES ANSWER SPECIFIC NEEDS | | | CSTS Ltd | | 15/08/2007 | | | Training employees in work at height safety is more likely to preserve life and prevent serious injury than any other form of instruction. Just how effective that training can be depends on how closely it is tailored to the employee’s own working environment.
CSTS, one of the UK’s first providers of confined spaces training, has introduced Work at Height Compliance to its growing list of courses but emphasises that each course is specifically created for the client. Training for gantry and cable work for rail contractors is one of the examples given by Joe McGowan, Sales and Marketing Manager with the company:
“In health and safety terms Work at Height covers everything from operating a tower crane to working near a pavement kerb. It is a massive subject area and compliance, or skills courses are often too overarching. We therefore support more focused training, such as our latest course geared to work near excavations.
“The danger of a fall from ground level is not always associated with routine, or planned work. For instance if an excavator breaks down at the hole perimeter, there is a strong chance that a maintenance engineer will face a fall hazard. The question then arises of whether lanyards, anchor points, harnesses and fall arresters should be used and how they are deployed. Operating conditions, such as these, can be so specific to individual industries and companies that our clients appreciate specially adapted training.”
The recent expansion of CSTS, to provide a full range of Health & Safety Compliance and skills training, included the appointment of Business Manager, Robert Weeks Cert Ed, a specialist in Work at Height training and equipment. Formerly with BH-Sala and Ridgegear, he was instrumental in adding Work at Height to the company’s portfolio of training, assessment, consultancy and equipment maintenance, testing, hire and sales services.
The latest figures released by the HSE show that, while the 46 deaths resulting from falls in 2005-6 was the lowest number on record, the figure still roughly equates to one person per week. The number of people sustaining major injuries in the same 12-month period totalled 3,351.
CSTS Ltd was established in 1988 and now has 10 full-time instructors, some qualified to IOSH/Cert Ed. With branches in Warrington, London and with seven training sites, CSTS has many accreditations to Awarding Bodies, quality, environmental and H&S standards, including OHSAS 18001:1999 (Occupational Health & Safety Management). | |
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