Course for both operatives and supervisors, designed to ensure compliance with current NRSWA legislation and approved code of practice.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Objective
• The avoidance of serious injury and major harm to employees and evidence of assessment and qualifications towards competence of employees.
• Improved planning and supervision of works carried out in the highway.
• Employees who feel they can make a greater contribution to the workplace and who feel their employer has made an investment in their future.
• Reduction of costs through significantly reduced number of fines.
Course content
• Hazards and risk control measures associated with working in the highway.
• How to avoid direct contact with underground services, by correct application of cable detection equipment, following plans, drawings and maps.
• Ability to set out signing, lighting and guarding equipment in a prescriptive manner according to type and speed of road, and to remove equipment in the correct sequence, in order to afford maximum protection to other road users, the public and workforce.
• How to excavate safely within highways and footpaths, using correct tools and equipment.
• Know how to reinstate footpaths and highways in accordance with current requirements, having previously selected and stored excavated materials for re-use.
• To place and compact backfill and sub-base materials.
• Laying and compaction of cold-lay bituminous materials.
• Supervise activities, if appropriate.
