CoHE _V5_ DRAFT REVIEW - Oct 2025


1. List of Abbreviations
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2. Terms and Definitions
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2.1 CoHE Roles and Responsibilities
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3. Change Log
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4. Scope
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5. General requirements for the CoHE Training Standard
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5.1 Overview
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5.2 Target Groups
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5.3 Aims and Objectives
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5.4 Duration of the CoHE Modules
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5.5 Validity Period
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5.6 Course Codes
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5.7 Participant Prerequisites for the CoHE Modules
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5.8 Instructor Qualification Prerequisites
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6. Resources required to deliver CoHE Modules
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6.1 Instructor to Participant Ratio
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6.2 Training Facilities & Equipment
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7. Using this Standard to Develop Training
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7.1 Lesson planning
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7.2 Participant Performance Assessment
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7.3 Alignment References
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8. COHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.1 Aims and Objectives of the CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.2 Duration of the CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.3 Instructor to Participant Ratio for CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.4 Equipment for the CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.5 Timetable for the CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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8.6 Detailed Description of the CoHE Electrical Safety Module
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Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Training
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ELEMENT 1.1 - Safety instructions and emergency procedures
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ELEMENT 1.2 - Facilities
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ELEMENT 1.3 - Introduction
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ELEMENT 1.4 - Aim and objectives
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ELEMENT 1.5 - Ongoing assessment
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ELEMENT 1.6 - Motivation
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ELEMENT 1.7 - Human factors
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Lesson 2 - Responsibilities & role of a Qualified Electrical Person
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ELEMENT 2.1 - Responsibilities and role of a qualified electrical person
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Lesson 3 - Electrically safe working conditions
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ELEMENT 3.1 - Electrical safe working practices & PPE
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ELEMENT 3.2 - Treating all electrical equipment as live until an electrically safe work condition has been established
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ELEMENT 3.3 - When to establish an electrically safe working condition
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ELEMENT 3.4 - How to establish an electrically safe working condition
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Lesson 4 - Testing and isolation
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ELEMENT 4.1 - Electrical measurement equipment
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ELEMENT 4.2 - 3-point test method to prove the absence of voltage
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ELEMENT 4.3 - Isolation of electrical equipment
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Lesson 5 - Control of hazardous electricity in task-based scenarios
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ELEMENT 5.1 - Hazardous electrical safety scenarios
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ELEMENT 5.2 - Safe handling of Stored Energy: batteries and capacitors
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Lesson 6 - Training review
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ELEMENT 6.1 - Training review
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ELEMENT 6.2 - Feedback session
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9. COHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.1 Aims and Objectives of the CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.2 Duration of the CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.3 Instructor to Participant Ratio of the CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.4 Equipment for the CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.5 Timetable for the CoHE Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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9.6 Detailed Description of the Pressure Fluid Safety Module
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Lesson 1 - Introduction to the training
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ELEMENT 1.1 - Safety instructions and emergency procedures
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ELEMENT 1.2 - Facilities
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ELEMENT 1.3 - Introduction
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ELEMENT 1.4 - Scope and main learning objectives
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ELEMENT 1.5 - Ongoing assessments (participants assessment form)
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ELEMENT 1.6 - Motivation
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ELEMENT 1.7 - Human factors
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Lesson 2 - Qualified Pressure Fluids Person Requirements and Role
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ELEMENT 2.1 - Role and responsibilities of a Qualified Pressure Fluids Person
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Lesson 3 - Safe work practices with Pressure Fluids
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ELEMENT 3.1 - Pressure fluid hazards & PPE
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ELEMENT 3.2 - Work instructions
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ELEMENT 3.3 - Pre-task briefing (Also known as toolbox talks)
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ELEMENT 3.4 - Pre-use check on pressure fluid test equipment and hoses
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ELEMENT 3.5 - Test for the absence of pressure
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ELEMENT 3.6 - Safe isolation and safe dissipation of pressure in a pressure system
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ELEMENT 3.7 - Component replacement in pressure systems
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ELEMENT 3.8 - Searching for leaks in a pressurised system safely
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Lesson 4 - Response to pressure fluid incidents
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Lesson 5 - Hazardous pressure fluid scenarios
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Lesson 6 - Training Review
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ELEMENT 6.1 - Training review
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ELEMENT 6.2 - Feedback session
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Annex 1 - Equipment list
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Annex 2 - Template description for a permit to work
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Annex 3 - Version History
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