CONDUCT WORK AT HEIGHT TRAINING (CWAH) – Blended
(Previously known as Work-at-Heights Train-The-Trainer Course -WAH TTT)
Legal Requirement
This course a mandatory training course for anyone who wants toe a facilitator/assessor for the Managing Work-at-Heights Course
For Whom
The CWAH is designed for practitioners of WAH who is required to competently deliver approved WAH training courses to Worker, Supervisor, Assessor and Manager Levels in Singapore.
Assumed Attitude, Skills and Knowledge / Entry Requirement
- Specialist Diploma in Workplace Safety and Health;
- Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA);
- 3 or more years of working experience as Project Manager / Operations Manager or equivalent;
- 3 or more years of relevant Work-at-Height experience.
- Physically fit and able to complete all practical activities, including some strenuous climbing and work-positioning tasks.
Course Overview
- Apply updated legislative requirements to Working at Height
- Identify hazardous & unsafe conditions whilst WAH across key industry sectors
- Develop rescue plans
- Apply legislative requirements and fundamentals of rescue from height.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of Fall Protection Systems (Assessor Level)
- Implement a Fall Prevention Plan (Manager Level)
Course Content
- Apply conditions of lost revenue to WAH.
- Apply conditions of individual worker safety and responsibility WAH
- Identify and apply alternative to WAH
- Apply safe selection and use of various temporary access system
- Identify hazardous & unsafe conditions whilst WAH across key industry sectors.
- Define systems used for WAH and identify their benefits, limitations & common unsafe Practices.
- Apply fundamentals of fall arrest systems
- Apply requirements of local and international standards to WAH and fall protection equipment
- Apply conditions of safely selecting anchorages
- Apply conditions of safely selecting vertical lifelines
- Apply conditions of safely selecting horizontal lifelines
- Apply conditions of safely selecting full body harness
- Apply conditions of safely selection shock absorbing lanyards
- Apply conditions of safely selecting self- retracting lifelines (SRLs)
- Apply conditions of safely selecting descent & work positioning systems
- Specify descent systems for particular WAH and confined space activities
- Demonstrate safe connections to full body harness
- Identify common unsafe practice whilst using twin lanyard
- Apply legislative requirements for rescue from height
- Apply conditions of shock and suspension trauma to rescue from height
- Identify industrial rescue systems and technics
- Developing Rescue plan
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of rescue team members
- Pre use inspection of rescue equipment
- Fitting of rescue harness
- Demonstrate logged inspection of a no-certified anchorage connector
- Demonstrate logged inspection of vertical Lifeline
- Demonstrate logged inspection of horizontal lifeline
- Demonstrate logged inspection of a full body harness
- Demonstrate logged inspection of a shock absorbing lanyard.
- Demonstrate logged inspection of a SRLs.
- Demonstrate sizing and fitting of a full body harness and lanyard.
- Demonstrate safe movement with 100% connection whilst using twin lanyard
- Demonstrate a “First man out” technique using a positioning lifeline and rope grab system.
- Demonstrate safe design, installation & use of a temporary horizontal lifeline system for fall arrest
- Demonstrate safe use of a permanent vertical lifeline system.
- Demonstrate safe design, installation & use of a temporary vertical lifeline system
- Demonstrate Safe design, installation & use of an SRL and Tagline system
- Demonstrate response to a fall emergency
- Demonstrate a versatile range of rescue from height technique.
- Demonstrate effective post rescue causality management including the application of immobilization and packaging technic.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of fall protection system (Assessor
Course Duration: 32 hours including 9.5 hours of assessment.
Medium of Instruction: English
Teaching Methodology:
- Face to Face class room teaching.
- The following blended learning methods are applied to maximize the learning outcome:
- Login to the Eversafe Academy e-learning platform and self-study from anyplace.
- Presentation slides
- Watch the video
- Self-assessment
- Forum discussion
- Project work on own workplace and submit project report (part of assessment)
- Login to the Eversafe Academy e-learning platform and self-study from anyplace.
Learning Environment: Our ergonomically designed class rooms are fully air-conditioned, equipped with white boards; audio/video equipment’s and free wi-fi .
Qualification or experience of facilitators:
A facilitator and assessor of this course will possess the following:
- Specialist Diploma in Workplace Safety and Health
- Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA)
- 5 years of relevant industry experience
- 2 years of Managerial experience
- Have at least 1 year experience in conducting rescue for WAH or 1 year experience in conducting rescue training for WAH
Key Person In charge: Monish V (Administrative Manager)
Class Size: Maximum 12
Facilitator/Learner Ratio: • Theory Lesson: 1:12
- Practical Lesson: 1:6
- Theory Assessment: 1:12
- Practical Assessment: 1:1
Course Attendance: 96% attendance. (1hr total tardiness)
Assessment Advice
- Inspection Checklist & Log (ICL) – To be completed
- Practical Performance (PP) – Executed to specified Performance Criteria
- System Evaluation Assignment (SEA) – To be completed
- Take-Home Assignment (THA) – To be completed
- Written Test (WT) – >80%
Course Fee exclusive of GST
S$1200.00/-
Funding & Claims
- Skill future credit/funding available
Certification
- Based on the successful completion of the course and assessment, a Statement of Attainment (SOA) from the Skillsfuture Singapore (SSG) and a Safety Pass from Eversafe Academy Pte. Ltd. will be awarded to the trainee.
- E-cert available
Course Venue
- 2, Joo Koon Road, Singapore-628966