Access Platforms

Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs)

Access Platforms

This course is for you if anyone that needs to become proficient in safely operating a MEWP. The one day course with classroom, practical demonstration and an assessment will ensure users are proficient in the safe operation of access platforms.

The course covers a range of machinery including:

• Mobile boom

• Mobile vertical

• Push around vertical

• Static boom

• Static vertical

The amount of instruction you will require will depend largely upon your previous experience and sessions will be adapted to meet your needs.

Course sessions include:

• Plant Safety and the Law

• Machine Knowledge and Preparation for Work

• Travelling and Manoeuvring the Machine

• Machine Operation

• Theory Assessment

• Practical Assessment

If successful in meeting the required standards, candidates will be awarded a certificate of competence and a Lantra skills ID card.

As the course contains some practical activity it will require a minimum level of fitness. If you have any concerns, please speak contact BMR.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the key requirements of health, safety and environmental legislation

• Interpret and comply with drawings, specifications, schedules, risk assessments and manufacturer’s operator’s manual (MOM) related to the plant or machinery operations and the work to be carried out

• Identify the hazards associated with plant or machinery operations and put the appropriate control measures in place

• Identify and explain different types of MEWPs, their purpose, machine components and operator controls

• Conduct all operational and pre-start checks

• Prepare the MEWP for site and highway travel

• Drive, tow or push the MEWP safely over varying types of terrain

• Operate the MEWP safely in restricted spaces

• Prepare the MEWP for lifting procedures

• Complete a range of lifting operations

• Demonstrate how to operate MEWPs with safe working parameters

• Demonstrate how to safely carry out emergency lowering procedures

• Describe emergency procedures

• Explain how to prepare for using a MEWP including planning the lifting operation, key responsibilities and pre-use checks

• Identify the machine components and operator controls

• Operate controls from ground level and from within the working platform

• Travel the MEWP with the platform in a raised position (self-propelled only)

• Position the platform up to the maximum working height

• Shut down and secure plant or machinery

• Describe the procedures used for loading and unloading a MEWP on and off a transporter

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