Work Safely With Heights License Course Melbourne

Work Safely With Heights Course in Melbourne

Participants of the Work Safely With Heights course complete the following unit of competence:

• RIIWHS204E Work Safely at Heights

The working at heights course provides essential height safety information and practical training around assessing fall hazards, implementing risk control measures and using harnesses and other safety equipment to perform work tasks at heights.

Australian Standard AS1891.4 Industrial fall-arrest systems and devices Selection, use and maintenance states that each person performing harness-based work must complete nationally recognised height safety training. This course helps to meet this requirement, and also contributes towards employers meeting their legislative obligations to provide adequate levels of information, instruction, training and supervision in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic.).

Work Safely With Heights License | Course Duration

The duration of the RIIWHS204E Work Safely at Heights Course is 1 Day (approximately 8 hours).

Work Safely With Heights | Course Overview

Working at height means working in a location where, if no precautions are implemented, a person could fall a distance liable to cause injury or death. It remains one of the major causes of death and serious injury in the workplace today. In the Short Courses Australia working at heights course, you will learn the skills needed to identify work requirements, work procedures and instructions, access and install equipment, perform work at heights and clean-up work areas.

For anyone planning to work in any industry or capacity that requires them to work at height, completing a working at height course won't just increase your safety, it will also help to protect the safety of your co-workers and even nearby worksite civilians.

This course will teach you the skills to:

• Identify work requirements
• Identify work procedures and instructions
• Access and install equipment
• Perform work at heights
• Clean up work area

Work Safely With Heights | Course Inclusions

• We supply all equipment necessary for you to undertake training
• Training conducted by experienced industry experts
• Plenty of practical hands on training

Work Safely With Heights | Mandatory Prerequisites

• To be eligible to enrol into our Working at Heights Course, you must:
  • Be a minimum 18 years of age
  • Have a valid USI (you can create one for free or look yours up at www.usi.gov.au)
  • Weigh no more than 120kg (this is the limit of our fall arrest systems)
  • Not be fearful of heights
  • Experience working with safety paperwork is preferred, but not essential
  • It's important that you're able to speak English clearly and be able to understand and complete worksite documentation relevant to working at heights

Work Safely With Heights Course Melbourne Costs

The cost of the course is $295.00 per person.