CPCS (Construction Plant Competent Scheme) Courses
Articulated Dump Truck (all sizes)
Theory Training includes the following subjects:
- Principles and aims of health and safety at work
- Employee’s duties and responsibilities under law
- Safety signs
- Dealing with hazards
- Accident prevention and control
- Selection and use of personal protective equipment
- Handling plant-related harmful substances
- Operator Roles and responsibilities
- Operator preparation for work
- Machine Travelling and manoeuvring
- Setting up for work
- Working tasks
- Completing work
- Shutdown procedures
- Machine handbooks
Practical Training covers:
- Basic construction, names of components and the purpose and use of all controls and gauges
- Use of the operator’s handbook, other information sources, Approved Codes of Practice and legislative documents
- Pre-use, start, running checks and close-down procedure
- Preparing the dump truck for site and road travel
- Travelling the dump truck over different terrain, including rough, undulating ground whilst unloaded and loaded
- Travelling up and down substantial inclines in and loaded and unloaded state
- Manoeuvring progressing to confined spaces in and forward and reverse direction
- Positioning the dump truck to receive loads
- Loading procedures
- Load characteristics, integrity and security
- How to discharge loads into trenches and over edges
- How to place the dump truck in an out-of-service condition
- How to load and unload the dump truck on and off a transporter.
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