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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. 

Units Delivered

The following units will be included in your certificate:

P00096 - Height Safety Gear Inspector Competent Person

Course Delivery

This course can be delivered/assessed in the workplace or at facility organised by the training provider.

Course Durations

Course durations can vary for multiple reasons, so the durations below are the minimum possible amount.

Face-to-Face Face to Face contact time of at least 4 Hours

No specific entry requirements for this course, industry experience recommended

This certificate does not require renewal

Assessment Activities

Assessments conducted during face-to-face training session(s) include:  

Performance Tasks – Prepare for, and undertake height safety / rescue equipment inspections

  • Recognises & locates relevant Legislation, Codes of Practice and Standards 

  • Sources and applies company SOPs to inspection procedures

  • Describes human factors impacting equipment inspectors & conduct of inspection works

  • Describes environmental factors impacting conduct of inspection works

  • Nominates appropriate risk controls for identified hazards in a range of inspection scenarios

  • Source and use appropriate PPE for inspection tasks

  • Describes basic material properties for alloy metals and synthetic fibres 

  • Recognise equipment types, Harnesses and lanyards

  • Recognise equipment types, Type I devices, Type II devices, Type III devices

  • Recognise equipment types, Synthetic attachment slings, round and flat, and synthetic sling components 

  • Recognise equipment types, Wire rope slings and wire rope sling components

  • Recognise equipment types, Connectors, karabiners, tube nut connectors, shackles

  • Recognise equipment types, Synthetic rope, hawser laid and kernmantle 

  • Recognise equipment types, prerigged rescue kits, edge protection systems

  • Recognise equipment types, Tripods, davit arms, other AHD systems

  • Access & interprets manufacturer technical data sheets & advisory notifications

  • Locate and interpret equipment markings according to manufacturer’s advice

  • Recognise discard criteria for a range of equipment types, as nominated in course delivery

  • Nominates commonly encountered failure modes for a range of equipment types

  • Recognises, selects, and correctly sets up nominated equipment for inspection

  • Undertakes a methodical inspection of equipment using sight, touch, function & measurement checks

  • Demonstrates use of measuring instruments, includes tape measure and vernier callipers 

  • Applies labels / tags to equipment, nominates when not appropriate to affix tags

  • Uses a register or log to record inspection findings information

  • Describes & applies quarantine, fault reporting & send for service/repairs procedures

  • Cleans work area, stows equipment correctly and reports inspection findings on completion


Documentation – The student must complete all documentation according to the required standard:

                               Attendance register and competency outcome record


  • Height safety equipment inspection record task sheets

  • Height safety equipment service record task sheets


Theory assessment -   There is no other written theory assessment for this course.


Other evidence collection – Heightsafe Solutions trainer / assessor will complete an observation checklist detailing the required performance outcome for each student. We collect video and picture evidence of task completions which are stored securely with the training records of that session. Please let us know beforehand if there may be security or personal issues with us collecting this type of evidence.


This course does not lead to a nationally recognised certificate