By the end of the course successful candidates will be aware of the following:

• Responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, PUWER 98 & LOLER 98
• Safe operating practices (company mobile plant rules if on customer premises),
• including evasive action-roll-over measures
• Daily and weekly maintenance schedules
• Identification of components
• Pre shift checks and fault recording
• Start-up procedures
• Factors affecting stability
• Motive and hydraulic controls
• Manoeuvring in open and confined areas
• Travelling over different types of terrain including inclines
• Excavation principles
• Working on stock-piles/side casting/forming edge protection/forming ramps and work
• platforms
• Loading hoppers
• Loading production machinery/transport vehicles
• Trenching principles/reinstatement/working with a banksman/weather conditions
• General levelling and grading
• Batter formation (if applicable)
• Identification and changing of attachments
• Re-fuelling
• Parking and post-stop checks
• Travelling on the public highway
• Loading and unloading from a transporter (if applicable)