Assign clear ownership for each element of safe elevated work platforms across the functions involved.
Designing Safe Work Platforms for Elevated Tasks
Turn safe elevated work platforms from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Where safe elevated work platforms depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. Safety performance on work platforms degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on this part of occupational health and safety and revise it on evidence. Moving safe elevated work platforms from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this aspect of occupational health and safety. The course covers work platforms at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Comparative studies of safe elevated work platforms across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Participants test their assumptions about work platforms against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the wider occupational health and safety agenda broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Close out corrective actions on work platforms rather than leaving them open.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of safe elevated work platforms and rank findings by consequence.
Verify that contractors performing work platforms meet the same standard as direct employees.
Align safe elevated work platforms with the wider objectives of the work site rather than optimising it in isolation.
Establish reporting routes for hazards and near misses involving work platforms that people will actually use.
Compare the organisation's handling of safe elevated work platforms with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Who Should Attend
Newly appointed managers taking on safe elevated work platforms for the first time.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from work platforms.
Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering safe elevated work platforms.
Internal auditors verifying controls over work platforms.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing safe elevated work platforms.
Specialists advising senior management on work platforms.
Course Modules
Safe elevated work platforms: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit regime safe elevated work platforms needs, and the one it does not
- Estimate the resource safe elevated work platforms requires to run as designed.
- Compare the cost of work platforms with the cost of its absence.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by safe elevated work platforms and arrange surveillance.
- Review whether work platforms is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
Session 2Comparing work platforms with recognised practice
- Close out corrective actions on safe elevated work platforms with a named owner and date.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of work platforms before proposing changes.
- Identify single points of dependency in safe elevated work platforms and reduce them.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in work platforms short and non-punitive.
Work platforms: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The exposure from work platforms that shows up years later
- Test that protective equipment specified for safe elevated work platforms fits and is maintained.
- Rank the weaknesses in work platforms by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in safe elevated work platforms.
- Record what was learned when work platforms did not go as planned.
Session 2Getting other functions to support work platforms
- Verify permits covering safe elevated work platforms are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Check that lessons from work platforms reached other sites doing similar work.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting safe elevated work platforms.
- Check the procedure for work platforms against how the work is actually done.
Work platforms: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Why a good control on work platforms stops being used
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for safe elevated work platforms, do not just publish it.
- Test the procedure for work platforms against a realistic scenario.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on safe elevated work platforms.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for work platforms.
Session 2Auditing safe elevated work platforms in the field rather than in the file
- Identify the data already collected that bears on safe elevated work platforms.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in work platforms is current.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to safe elevated work platforms.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when work platforms underperforms.
Work platforms: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in work platforms and how to reason about them
- Identify the hazards in safe elevated work platforms and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Remove steps in work platforms that add effort without adding assurance.
- Check that safe elevated work platforms still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Verify six months later that changes to work platforms have held.
Session 2Writing a procedure for work platforms people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Audit application of safe elevated work platforms controls at the workface.
- Reduce the variation in how work platforms is carried out between teams.
- Confirm that controls on safe elevated work platforms sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Record who is authorised to work on work platforms and when authorisation expires.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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