SPA Safety Passport Renewal - Mineral Products

Course Overview 

• To provide basic information and areas of responsibility for health, safety and environment.
• To understand the implications of hazard recognition/risk assessment and the effects on individuals and the employer.
• To demonstrate how individual behaviour can help reduce accidents.
• To build on the basic health and safety information in the Core Day programme by concentrating on risks specifically found in the Mineral Extraction and Products Industry
• To understand the implications of: risk of personal injury, cost to the business, job security, environment not properly considered

Objectives

On completion of the course delegates will have the knowledge to:

• Demonstrate their understanding of the subjects by successfully completing each module assessment paper.
• Appreciate how they personally can influence good standards within health safety & environment.
• Understand the value of risk assessment and have the knowledge to recognise when change to a generic assessment is required.
• Understand the common hazards associated with working in this sector.

Programme Summary

Core Day

6 Modules which include:

• Health & Safety law and responsibilities
• Risk assessments
• Safe place of work, safe behaviours
• Common hazards including fire, asbestos, confined spaces and display screen equipment
• Power and hand tools, electricity
• Health issues including manual handling, noise, hazardous substances and stress
• First aid, road safety, reporting of accidents and incidents
• Environmental considerations

Quarry Day

Modules include:

• Danger areas, unprotected edges, quicksand, lagoons, blasting, bitumen and cement
• Mobile plant, reversing vehicles, heavy mobile plant, crane operations and slinging
• Access and work at height, scaffolds, mobile elevated work equipment, ladders and harnesses
• Hazardous operations, fencing, isolation, lock off procedures and permits to work
• Excavations and confined spaces, hazards and control measures, emergency procedures
• Health risks, dusts, diseases, noise and vibration
• Personal protective equipment
• Environmental considerations, public perception, air, land and water pollution waste control.

Certification

Successfully completing all assessment papers will result in a safety passport being issued. The passport is valid for 3 years

Course Content 

The MPQC Quarry Passport/R course content includes a refresher on the following 11 modules:

Module 1 – Introduction to Health and Safety Law and Safe Systems of Work
Module 2 – Workplace Safety
Module 3 – Fire Precautions and Procedures
Module 4 – Accident and First Aid Procedures
Module 5 – Hazardous Substances
Module 6 – Manual Handling
Module 7 – Noise at Work
Module 8 – Health and Safety Management Relating to Quarry Operations
Module 9 – Working with Cranes and Heavy Equipment
Module 10 – Safe Working – Excavations and Confined Spaces
Module 11 – Working at Height