Use access equipment up to six meters

Install | FS002

This standard is about using, removing and storing access equipment up to six meters for work operations, including ladders, stepladders / platform steps, proprietary towers, podiums and mobile scaffold towers. This includes interpreting information, adopting safe, healthy and environmentally responsible work practices, selecting and using components, tools and equipment.

Culture & behaviour

Core abilities

Culture & behaviour
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Effective working behaviours

You must:

  • Work within limits of defined capability and know when to seek advice from others
    • The individual understands what they are competent to do and what they are not competent to do. They seek advice from a supervisor if work they have been asked to do is outside their capability or if they are unsure about how to proceed. They practice the 'responsible no' and do not carry out work that they are not competent to do.
  • Work effectively individually and as part of a team
    • The individual takes responsibility for their own actions and works with the rest of their team to get the job done. They manage their own time effectively, keep their work area clean and tidy, comply with organisational requirements and procedures, and communicate effectively through oral, written or electronic means as appropriate.
  • Undertake defined personal development activities to maintain currency of competence
    • The individual keeps up to date with any personal development activities required, ensuring that their skills, knowledge and experience remain up to date.
Culture & behaviour
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Passive fire protection installation behaviours

You must:

  • Use organisational processes to flag up non-compliant works
    • The individual identifies where work may not be compliant and escalates this to their supervisor
  • Challenge apparently unsafe behaviours and activities, and report where necessary
    • The individual identifies potentially unsafe behaviours or activities, challenging these and bringing these to the attention of supervisors or others where needed. They put health, safety and well-being first.
  • Identify and manage risks to self and others
    • The individual identifies things that pose a risk to themselves or others, takes mitigating actions or escalates any issues to keep everyone safe.
  • Work in accordance with quality requirements and challenge where they are not being met
    • The individual identifies where quality requirements are not or may not be being met and raises this with their supervisor
Currency of competence
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Experience using access equipment up to six meters

You must have:

  • Maintenance of relevant qualifications / accreditations in relation to access and working platforms used within the workplace

To provide evidence, you may complete:

  • In date access platform training - IPAF
    • Within 3-year renewal period
  • In date access platform training - PASMA
    • Within 3-year renewal period
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Safe practices for using access equipment up to six meters

You must:

  • Know what the accident reporting procedures are and who is responsible for making the report
  • Know how emergencies should be responded to and who should respond
  • Know why, when and how health and safety control equipment should be used
  • Know the organisational procedures developed to report and rectify inappropriate information and unsuitable resources, and how they are implemented
  • Know the organisational procedures to solve problems with the information and why it is important they are followed
  • Know organisational security procedures for tools, equipment and personal belongings
  • Know how to protect work from damage and the purpose of protection
  • Know why disposal of waste should be carried out safely and how it is achieved
  • Know how to comply with environmentally responsible work practices to meet current legislation and official guidance
  • Understand what the programme is for the work to be carried out in the estimated, allocated time and why deadlines should be kept
Specific abilities
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Selecting and using resources for access equipment up to six meters

You must:

  • Know the characteristics, quality, uses, suitability, limitations and defects associated with the resources and how defects should be rectified
  • The types of information, their source and how they are interpreted
  • Current legislation and official guidance and how it is applied
  • Know the hazards associated with the resources and methods of work and how they are overcome
  • Know how the resources should be used and how any problems associated with the resources are reported
  • The organisational procedures to select resources, why they have been developed, and how they are used
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Using access equipment up to six meters

You must:

  • Know how methods of work to meet the specification are carried out and problems reported
  • Know how maintenance of tools and equipment it carried out

You must be able to:

  • Interpret the given information relating to the work and resources to confirm its relevance
  • Comply with the given, relevant legislation and official guidance to carry out your work and maintain safe and healthy work practices
  • Select the required quantity and quality of resources for the methods of work
  • Comply with the given contract information to carry out the work efficiently to the required specification
    • To include two of the following equipment types: ladders, stepladders / platform steps, proprietary towers, podiums, mobile scaffold towers.
  • Comply with organisational procedures to minimise the risk of damage to the work and surrounding area
  • Complete the work within the allocated time, in accordance with the programme of work

Currency of competence

Specific abilities

Culture & behaviour

Core abilities

Currency of competence

Specific abilities

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