Title
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Tool and Equipment Hire management (TEHM) – Dust Management essentials
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Duration
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Minimum 1/2 day of 3 learning hours
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Purpose/ scope
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The purpose of this standard is to provide the Tool and Equipment Hire manager with the required skills and knowledge to ensure the company complies with legislation for both internal and external users of equipment likely to create dust or fumes
Scope:
Safety Management – Dust Management Essentials -
The manager will be be aware of:
The possible medical conditions - diseases like lung cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and silicosis.
The causes
Common construction tasks can produce high levels of dust, many of these activities can be linked to the use of hire equipment such as abrasive wheels; drilling and chasing out; scabbling and grinding; sanding equipment amongst others.
Understand and implement:
Legislation
- COSHH - Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 - states ‘must protect against the risks from hazardous construction dusts’
- The Health and Safety at Work Act Section 6 places broad responsibilities for the safety of the products Hire & Rental operations hire out. This includes (so far as reasonably practicable) pre-hire testing and inspection to ensure continued safety and performance to manufacturer stated levels for dust suppression equipment , and the provision of information.
Obligations to manage
- The level at which employees are exposed to dust
- Product return from hire - inspections and maintenance of dust suppression attachments
- Provide training to employees and AIG (advice, information & guidance) to both employees and customers
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Occupational relevance
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Training delivered against this standard would be relevant to the following occupational group(s):
- supervision (with potential for development into managerial role)
- management and leadership
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Candidate pre-requisites
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This training is designed to up-skill both new tool and equipment hire managers and existing managers who lack formal qualifications - both would, after training and practical on-job experience, benefit from assessment leading to the award of the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Hire and Rental (Equipment Plant and Tools)
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Instruction/ supervision
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As a minimum, course instructors must be able to demonstrate that, in relation to this standard, they are/have:
- a qualified, experienced trainer
- be qualified Hire and Rental Management (VQ level 3)
- a verifiable CV
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Delivery
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Delivery will be in an off the job environment.
All materials and equipment must be of a suitable quality and quantity for candidates to achieve learning outcomes and must comply with relevant legislation.
The class size and candidate/instructor ratio must allow training to be delivered in a safe manner and enable candidates to achieve the learning outcomes.
The following delivery methods may be used in the delivery of this standard:
- a blend of classroom and e-learning
This standard is considered to contain 51% or more theoretical learning.
This standard is considered to be set at an Advanced level.
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Assessment
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Methods of assessment considered appropriate for training delivered against this standard are:
For the successful completion of training, the trainer must be satisfied that the candidate has achieved all of the training learning outcomes
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Quality assurance
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Assured
Quality assurance against this standard will require initial approval of the training organisation and their content mapped to the standard.
CITB will also conduct an approval intervention, either desk-based or centre visit, to ensure the training organisation can meet the requirements of the training standard.
Approved training organisations (ATOs) will be required to present information on records of training and assessment upon request to CITB for desk based analysis. They will also be visited annually by the CITB quality assurance team.
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Renewal
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Non-mandatory refresher every 3 years
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Approval date
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March 2020
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Review cycle
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Either On request or 3 years from approval date
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