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SPA Safety Passport - Core & Mineral Products

£280 per delegate

Duration: 2 days

Trainer: G453TL

The Safety Pass Alliance, or the SPA, is the most prominent safety passport awarding body in the UK. The SPA MPQC Quarry passport is run in conjunction with MPQC (formerly known as EPIC) and counts as a Level 2 QCF qualification.

What does it cover?

The Quarry safety passport (sometimes known as the EPIC card) training course covers topics such as dust, confined spaces and hazard awareness.

Please note: This is NOT the Driver’s Skills card scheme.You will need to call the MPQC themselves if you require this.

Who needs this passport?

You may require a Quarry Safety Passport if you work on a quarry, in excavation or with mineral products in your job.

Course Content:

Introduction to ‘Quarry Day’

- HSE accident statistics
- Rationale for quarries regulations
- HSE target for improvement

Module 1

Part 1: Management of Health and Safety in Quarries

- Responsibilities
- The ‘Health and Safety Document’ (required by Quarry Regulations)
- Emergency and accident procedures

Part 2: Vehicle Safety

- Operator and pedestrian safety
- Operator visibility difficulties
- ‘Vehicle Rules’
- Parking considerations

Part 3: Danger Areas

- Defining ‘Danger Areas’
- Excavations, tips and free flowing materials
- Bitumen coating plants
- Railways and docks
- Precautions during blasting operations

Part 4: Hazardous Operations

- Safety precautions during normal, maintenance and breakdown work
- Fencing
- Isolation / lock-off procedures
- Permit to Work and example applications:

- Confined spaces, crusher clearance, conveyor tensioners

Part 5: Health risks working in quarries

- Dusts, diseases, noise, vibration, and dehydration
- Control risks measures including PPE Excavations, tips and free flowing materials
- Bitumen coating plants

Part 6: Environmental Considerations

- Public perception of environmental impacts
- Powers of inspectors / enforcing authorities and penalties
- Precautions to avoid spillage and groundwater contamination
- Waste segregation and disposal
- Air pollution from dust and noise
- Hazards and precautions associated with landfills
- Ecology and Archaeology

Module 2: Safe Working Practices

- Safe use of mechanical lifting equipment
- Requirements of LOLER
- Signalling – authorised personal
- Control of lifting operations
- Hazards of slung loads and overhead lines
- Hazards in the use of Fork Lift Trucks
- Hazards of plant operations and precautions

Module 3: Excavations and Confined Spaces

- Safe working in excavations and confined space
- Precaution to prevent collapse
- Inspection requirements
- Access egress and prevention of falls
- Lighting, ventilation requirements
- Effect of weather
- Emergency procedure
- Confined space regulations
- Specified risks
- Control measures: basic precautions / permit

Module 4: Working at Heights

- Safe work on roofs
- Prevention of falls and falling objects
- Scaffolding – register and inspection requirements
- Mobile scaffold towers – precautions
- Safe use of Mobile Elevated Work Platforms
- Use and misuse of ladders

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