Safety training
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7.4 Equipment for the Onshore Limited Access Module
The equipment required for training, as listed in Annex 1, must be available and must meet the national legal requirements specified in Table A1-1 in Annex 1, where applicable.
A generic approach to teaching safety equipment is applied in this module to avoid potential product specific additional training after completion, which may be required by the participant’s organisation (e.g. prior to site work). The generic approach is achieved by teaching a variety of safety equipment products within each category (e.g. guided type fall arresters). This enables participants to carry out pre-use inspections and operate other safety equipment products beyond those demonstrated during this module, provided they refer to the manufacturer’s user manual. However, a location specific risk assessment may identify the need for additional instructions.
Additional fall protection must always be used during training activities at height.
It must be ensured that equipment combinations and training activities do not compromise the function of the additional fall protection system. Systems used as backup elements must be risk assessed as suitable for that purpose
Note
The training provider shall introduce control measures that lower the risks and hazards associated with a fall from height to an acceptable level, following the Hierarchy of Controls in their risk assessment.
GWO recommends a maximum fall factor of 0.5. To calculate this, the following formula is applied, based on the maximum allowed lanyard of length 2.00 m and a fall of 1.00 m. 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 ( 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 )= 𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿ℎ 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 ( 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 ) = 1.00 𝑚𝑚 2.00 𝑚𝑚 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 ( 𝐹𝐹𝐹𝐹 ) =0.5 During the evacuation exercises in this module the anchor points used for the attachment of fall arrest lanyards (including energy absorbers) must be positioned high enough above the ground (or structure below) to ensure that, in the event of a fall, the energy absorber can fully deploy and prevent the participant from contacting the ground (or structure directly below the anchor point). During the evacuation exercise participants must be able to experience a minimum amount of descent (using an evacuation or rescue device) to ensure they gain the experience of the speed of descent when using these devices. This can be achieved by having the participants descend from a minimum height using a rescue or evacuation device.
To ensure that for all fall protection equipment that may be used that there will be enough clearance below the anchor point, and to ensure that the participants can experience a descent of sufficient duration for
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