Ladder and Step ladder User Safety Refresher Training

Ladder and Step Ladder User Safety Refresher Training

A typical working day, refreshed from start to finish.

If your job involves using ladders or step ladders, your employer has a legal duty to ensure you are trained to do so safely. However, training given once, some years ago, does not always stay current in practice. Habits drift, shortcuts creep in, and the reasoning behind each step of safe ladder use can fade, even when the basic actions remain.

This 2-hour practical refresher is structured around a typical working day using ladders. This means the safety principles are refreshed in the context where they are actually applied, not as abstract rules, but as decisions you make at each stage of a real task.

A typical session covers:

Your manager gives you a task to complete. You assess the task and the likely hazards, with reference to the relevant legislation. You select an appropriate ladder or step ladder from the stores, then load it ready for transport, considering vehicle overhangs and when signage is required. At the site, you speak to the client about the job, identify any affected access routes, and set up your safety barriers. You give the ladder a pre-use check, set it up, secure it, and begin to climb.

This structure, covering task, selection, transport, site set-up, pre-use check and safe climbing, is the backbone of the refresher. Each stage gives an opportunity to check and correct technique.

Course Details

Important: this is a refresher course. If you have not previously completed ladder user safety training, please book our full Ladder and Stepladder User Safety Training course, or the combined Use and Inspection course, instead.

Course Type:

• Face to Face training (maximum of 12 learners to 1 instructor).

Certificate:

• Ladder & Steps User Training
• You will receive an A4 sized PDF certificate issued by Chris Garland Training that is valid for 3 years.

Course duration:

• 2 guided learning hours.

Time:

• Typically 09:00-11:00hrs & 14:00-16:00. Please note the exact times for your course booking.

Test:

• • Each candidate will undertake a practical ladder & steps safety training assessment. Candidates are required to score 100% to achieve a pass.

Pre-requisites:

• Candidates should be at least 16 years old to undertake this qualification.
• Candidates will have completed a recognised ladder and step ladder training course within the last 3 years.
• It is recommended that candidates have at least level 1 literacy to undertake this qualification within the course duration.
• All candidates are to bring their own:
  • clean hi-viz
  • hard hat (not bump cap)
  • work gloves
  • steel toe-capped safety footwear

Candidates:

• All courses have a minimum and maximum number of candidates that we can take on a course.
  • Minimum: We need a minimum of 4 candidates booked on an open/scheduled course for the course to run. Click here for more details. There is no minimum for a private course.
  • Maximum: We are limited by the Health & Safety Executive, and where applicable by the Awarding Organisation, to a maximum of 12 candidates per instructor. Should you have more than 12 candidates that need to be trained, please contact us to arrange a private course, where we can arrange for a second instructor/assessor to be present to comply with this restriction.

Geographical coverage:

• This Ladder and Step ladder User Safety Training course is available to candidates throughout the UK.
• The course can be delivered in other countries, however, candidates should be aware that the content was developed in accordance with current UK practice.

Venue:

• Scheduled courses run at our training centre in Knutsford, Cheshire.
• Why not arrange to have a private courses run at your workplace? Simply fill in our quote builder tool to request a quotation.