Your Guide to a Crane and Plant Electrical Safety Course
Workplace Health and Safety is a huge issue for employers in Australia. As governing bodies work to implement strategies to reduce workplace accidents, training plays a key role. It covers safe working distances, minimum clearance between objects, and how to prevent electrical shocks. Here’s what to know about a crane and plant electrical safety course.
What is a crane and plant electrical safety course?
As mentioned above, if you operate cranes or other plant equipment near powerlines (both overhead and underground), you need the appropriate accreditations. Many other safety measures also need to be met. One of those is the Work Safely in the Vicinity of Live Electrical Apparatus as a Non-electrical Worker (UETDREL006) course.
This course essentially teaches you how to safely operate cranes and plant equipment in close proximity to live electrical apparatus. There are minimum safe working distances when working with electrical apparatus such as power lines. Only qualified electrical workers may work within these safe distances. However, plant operators often need to be within these clearance zones too, and that’s exactly what this course is about.
Who needs to complete this course?
Two particular types of people need accreditation with a crane and plant electrical safety course. Firstly, anybody who operates a crane within the minimum safe working distance needs accreditation. Secondly, anybody who observes the operation of a crane within the minimum safe distance.
So, crane and machinery operators should complete this course, but it’s also for supervisors and others who oversee operations on a work site.
How long will it take?
For newcomers, this is a 2-day course. If you’ve done the training before but need a refresher, no problem. You can do this in 1 day.
What will I learn in this course?
The standard crane and plant electrical safety course includes 3 different components. Each also has its own accreditation code. These components are below:
UETDREL006 – Work safely in the vicinity of live electrical apparatus as a non-electrical worker; and
UETDRRF004 – Perform rescue from a live LV panel; and
HLTAID009 – Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The penalties for not completing a crane and plant electrical safety course
It’s important for business owners, supervisors and anybody responsible for overseeing a worksite to be aware of the implications if they choose to not follow WHS guidelines. Of course, there are plenty of rules and regulations to follow.
An individual found to be working within the minimum safe distance exclusion zone for charged electrical apparatus can be fined up to $6,000. There are up to $30,000 fines for a body corporate. Needless to say, the best way to avoid fines is to ensure your people are properly trained. But more importantly, this ensures the safety of all workers.
Need a crane and plant electrical safety course?
If you operate cranes or any other plant equipment near overhead or underground powerlines, you need to be accredited with the Work Safely in the Vicinity of Live Electrical Apparatus as a Non-electrical Worker course. As an employer, it’s also important that relevant staff members and equipment operators receive refresher training to maintain accreditation. At IAC Safety Services, we offer this course as well as many others, so when you or your people need accreditation, we’re the team to call. Contact us today or find out how to enrol online.
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