Topics

- Legal requirements and guidance
- Initial inspection
- Asset register
- Inspection procedures
- Inspection Documentation
- Manufacturing techniques
- Maintenance/repairs
- Disposal
- Theory and Practical Tests.

Benefits

To enable delegates to:

- Accurately record details of ladders
- Identify component parts using industry standard naming conventions
- Thoroughly inspect ladders and stepladders, and identify safety critical faults
- Record your findings in accordance with statutory requirements
- Recommend action to be taken if faults found.
- And ensure delegates have an understanding of:
- The relevant legislation and guidance and approved Code of Practice (ACOPs)
- The difference between pre-use and formal inspections
- Common manufacturing processes used, and their implications
- The difference between maintenance and repairs and who is allowed to do them
- The correct methods of disposal of equipment at the end of its working life.