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This course will test your knowledge and confidence to operate the machine safely, protecting both you and those around you.
This course offers a range of certificate options depending on your needs:
- Below ten tonnes
- Above ten tonnes
- Excavators used as cranes.
The finer details
This course has been developed to assess your knowledge and understanding of how to operate a 360˚ wheeled excavator safely.
The course duration will depend on the number of Learners requiring assessment and will be from half a day to one day.
The assessment will consist of a multiple choice question paper and practical assessment using the machine. Assessment will cover:
- Plant Safety and the Law
- Machine Knowledge and Preparation for Work
- Travelling and Manoeuvring the Machine
- Machine Operation
- Excavators used as cranes (optional).
If successful in meeting the required standards assessed, you will be awarded a certificate of competence and a Lantra skills ID card for your chosen certificate option.
Course description:
Who should attend?
This course is for you if you need to prove your ability in safely operating a 360˚ wheeled excavator or renew your Lantra Skills card.
As you'll appreciate, this course contains some practical activity that will require a minimum level of fitness. If you have any concerns, please speak to the provider.
What will be covered?
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the key requirements of health, safety and environmental legislation
- Interpret and comply with drawings, specifications, schedules, risk assessments and manufacturer’s operator’s manuals (MOM) related to the plant or machinery operations and the work to be carried out
- Identify the hazards associated with plant or machinery operations and put the appropriate control measures in place
- Identify and explain the purpose of machine components and operator controls
- Conduct all operational and pre-start checks
- Prepare the excavator for site and highway travel
- Drive the excavator safely over varying types of terrain
- Operate the excavator safely in restricted spaces
- Prepare the machine and bucket to excavate
- Demonstrate how to attach and remove different types of buckets and ancillaries safely
- Select the appropriate techniques to perform essential tasks
- Operate plant and machinery to excavate ground and loose materials to given work instructions
- Perform excavation activities in a variety of soil types
- Demonstrate how to place spoil into transporting vehicles safely
- Demonstrate how to grade, spread and level different types of material
- Demonstrate how to lift basic suspended loads with the excavator in set configuration(s)
- Shut down and secure plant or machinery
- Describe the procedures used for loading and unloading excavators when transported on a trailer.
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