SPA Safety Passport Renewal - Mineral Products
£200 per delegate. This may be less for special offers on specific course dates and in-company training courses
Duration: 1 day
Trainer: G453TL
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Eligibility:
This course is only for delegates with an existing MPQC Quarry passport (you will see an ‘MP’ icon on your passport). You have until the expiry date of your old card to sit on this course. Otherwise you’ll have to sit the full 2 day course to renew.
Please note: this is not the Driver’s Skills Card training. You will need to contact the MPQC if you require that training.
Please note: this is not the Driver’s Skills Card training. You will need to contact the MPQC if you require that training.
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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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| Manchester | North West |
Thu 18 Dec 25 Single day in duration, dates as indicated. |
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