Pre-requisites: Candidates must have successfully passed the CSCS Health, Safety and Environment touchscreen test for Managers within the past two years.
Course Aims:
To provide thorough training on the responsibilities of an Appointed Person. To enable the candidate to competently and safely carry out the role and pass the CPCS Theory and Practical Tests.
Course Content:
- Regulations and Codes of Practice
- Safe systems of work including method statements
- Personal responsibilities
- Cranes: types and terms
- Crane documentation
- Crane stability, duty charts and safety devices
- Tower crane appreciation
- British Standard 1721
- Appointed persons
- Planning a lift
- End test
- LOLER and Puwer
Duration of Training: Foundation Training - 4 Days training + 1 day testing
Test:
To achieve the Red CPCS Trained Operator Card candidates must pass both the CPCS Theory Test and the Practical Test.
NVQ Plant Operations and CPCS Competence Card:
Once you have achieved your Red CPCS Trained Operator Card it lasts for 2 years. During these 2 years you must work towards and achieve your NVQ in Plant Operations to upgrade to a Blue CPCS Competence Card.