LANTRA Awards Slinger/Signaller - Training & Assessment Course [1 Day]

You will need to make your own provision for lunch. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be provided throughout the course.

Please bring photographic proof of ID and Lantra ID number (if held).

Please email the office with a site contact name, number and what3words reference. Please inform us of any site security requirements one week prior to your course.

Please ensure there is a dry and warm classroom type space with wifi connection and full access to w.c. facilities.

Greenway Training will provide the machinery and equipment. Candidates need to bring a safety helmet and gloves.

Candidates should arrive 15 minutes prior to the scheduled course in preparation for a prompt start.

For PPE, candidates will need high-visibility clothing, safety footwear appropriate to the activities and weather, overalls and wet-weather clothing, safety helmet and safety gloves.

Please ensure the details of the vehicle [make and model] are confirmed ahead of course.

The manufacturer's operator's manual for all machinery and attachments must be readily accessible. Test certificates must be available for all equipment and accessories.

• A fully serviceable crane/lifting appliance with varying radii and slew facility compliant with all safety regulations and legislation
• Lifting appliances may be one of the following, provided that they are equipped with certificated attachments: tower cranes; mobile cranes; telescopic handlers fitted with a purpose-made hook, excavators fitted with a lifting hook/eye, lorry loaders (machines must be suitable to allow the full range of British Standards signals to be demonstrated)
• A range of suitable lifting accessories to include chain slings, wire-rope slings and fibre slings.
• Suitable loads should be lifted, including bundled, balanced, unbalanced and 75% safe working load (SWL) of lifting accessories, such as tubes, pipes and palletised items
• Safety nets for loads.

The practical site area needs to have a minimum 25m run to winch from and suitable material to winch, such as a large log.

Training and assessment must be completed on a suitable site off highway. The site must facilitate the lifting appliance operation throughout its full working radius.
Consideration to overhead and underground hazards together with ground conditions ensuring lifting appliance stability is not compromised. Training should be carried out on private land with the land owner’s permission, avoiding any public rights of way.

For PPE, candidates will need high-visibility clothing, safety footwear appropriate to the activities and weather, overalls and wet-weather clothing, safety helmet and safety gloves.

LANTRA Awards Slinger/Signaller - Training & Assessment Course

Do you require any reasonable adjustments? We offer aids for neurodiversity and sensory needs and can arrange with our instructors to adjust the learning pace of the session if required. All requests will be handled discreetly. Please advise the office five days prior to the course. Reasonable Adjustments Policy & Form.