Training courses for Qualified Persons for ladders, steps, mobile scaffolds and fixed ladders

Target group

Every person, employer and employee who provides and uses ladders, steps and mobile scaffolds and are consequently required to periodically inspect the same under BetrSichV § 3. This includes e.g. every company, public authority and employee who performs repair and maintenance work as well as occupational safety and safety officers.

Prerequisites for participation (In accordance with Technical Rules for Industrial Safety and Health 1203 (TRBS)

In order to qualify as a qualified person for inspecting ladders and steps, individuals have to have:

• Relevant vocational training
• Professional experience in the use of ladders, steps and mobile scaffolds
• Recently been working/employed in their relevant field
  
  Individuals have to either have completed vocational training or hold a degree. Their professional experience has to relate to the use of ladders and steps and they may be required to provide evidence of the same. The recent employment has to have involved the requisite ladder safety expertise to ensure that the qualified person will be able to identify any risks early and professionally when inspecting ladders and steps.

Training course contents

• A qualified person's role within a company (in accordance with TRBS)
• Standards and regulations
• Types of ladders, steps, small and mobile scaffolds and their safe use
• Contents and use of the  Assembly Instructions and User Manual for mobile scaffolds such as e.g. the required ballast, parts lists, order of assembly and use of safety inspection tags by means of practical examples
• Correct use of the inspection documents and records such as checklists, inventory lists, inspection tags and labels
• How to proceed in the event of a defect ladder, step or mobile scaffold
• Test and award of certificate

Target group

Every person, employer and employee who provides and uses ladders and steps and are consequently required to periodically inspect the same under BetrSichV § 3. This includes e.g. every company, public authority and employee who performs repair and maintenance work as well as occupational safety and safety officers.

Prerequisites for participation (In accordance with Technical Rules for Industrial Safety and Health 1203 (TRBS)

In order to qualify as a qualified person for inspecting ladders and steps,  individuals have to have:

• Relevant vocational training
• Professional experience in the use of ladders and steps
• Recently been working/employed in their relevant field

Individuals have to either have completed vocational training or hold a degree. Their professional experience has to relate to the use of ladders and steps and they may be required to provide evidence of the same. The recent employment has to have involved the requisite ladder safety expertise to ensure that the qualified person will be able to identify any risks early and professionally when inspecting ladders and steps.

Training course contents

• A qualified person's role within a company (in accordance with TRBS)
• Standards and regulations
• Definition of ladders and steps
• Safe use of ladders and steps
• Hands-on inspections and instruction in the correct use of the inspection records
• How to proceed in the event of a defect ladder, step or mobile scaffold
• Test and award of certificate

Target group

Every person, employer and employee who provides and uses ladders and steps and are consequently required to periodically inspect the same under BetrSichV § 3. This includes e.g. every company, public authority and employee who performs repair and maintenance work as well as occupational safety and safety officers.

Prerequisites for participation (In accordance with Technical Rules for Industrial Safety and Health 1203 (TRBS)