Height Safety Gear Inspector Competent Person

This course is applicable to personnel who are required to inspect & provide a serviceability decision on height safety equipment, record relevant details in a log or register and report/quarantine / send for service any unserviceable equipment, or for those required to supervise, manage, or provide safety role support to those workers.

This course addresses legislative requirements including WHS Law, Codes of Practice, personal accountability, record keeping & reporting, risk management, standards, manufacturer technical guidance, human factors, manual handling considerations, equipment types, common names & Standards terminology, tagging, labelling, quarantine procedures & reporting. 

Training is contextualised for inspection of commonly used height work equipment items in a range of environments.

This is a competency-based industry training course which may provide PCBU’s and principal contractors with evidence of meeting parts of their general duty to ensure the workplace health and safety of themselves, workers, and other persons. This duty includes ensuring any person required to conduct equipment inspections, make judgement calls on serviceability and make records of findings is deemed competent through provision of sufficient information, instruction, training & experience. The skills taught and assessed in this course are applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation & guidance, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.