Ground Care.

 

Ride on Mowers

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Training (with Assessment )

Duration: 1 day Classroom and practical

Delivery Method: Introduction and demonstration Build your skills with our ride-on mower course for learners. Overview in brief A wide range of mowers are used across horticultural and landscape businesses. With proper training, most pose little risk to either the user or anyone near to the machine. Our course will give you that training, ensuring you can operate a ride-on mower safely and efficiently. Once you've successfully completed the course, you'll receive a certificate of training. The finer details Our one-day course will give you an insight into both safety awareness and risk assessment. You'll also run through the machine's capabilities and learn how to maintain the mower. After that, you'll gain practical experience, including mowing on slopes. Course sessions: 

• Legislation

• General safety

•  Risk assessment

•  Hydrostatic drive 

• Cutting mechanisms

•  Controls and equipment

•  Daily checks

• Safe methods of operation

•  Working on slopes

• Transportation

• Driving on public roads

• Safety with fuel

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Who should attend?

Our one-day training course will suit anyone employed in agriculture, horticulture, landscaping and grounds maintenance that currently operates, or may be required to operate, a ride-on mower.

 

Pedestrian Mowers

 

A wide range of mowers are used across horticultural and landscape businesses.

With proper training, most pose little risk to either the user or anyone near to the machine.

Our course will give you that training, ensuring you can operate a pedestrian mower safely and efficiently.

Once you've successfully completed the course, you'll receive a certificate of competence.

The finer details

Our course will give you an insight into both safety awareness and risk assessment.

This revamped course now contains specific information for battery operated machines.

You'll also run through the machine's capabilities and learn how to maintain the mower.

After that, you'll gain practical experience, including mowing on slopes.

Course sessions:

• Legislation

• General safety

• Risk assessment

• Hydrostatic drive

• Cutting mechanisms

• Controls and equipment

• Daily checks

• Safe methods of operation

• Working on slopes

• Transportation

• Driving on public roads

• Safety with fuel.

 

Brushcutters/trimmers

 

Brushcutters/trimmers are popular tools across the agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, and grounds maintenance industries.

They save time and work efficiently in tricky terrains and situations.

But they also have the potential to be one of the most dangerous machines in common use.

Our course will help novice users recognise and reduce those dangers.

You'll also learn how to optimise performance and carry out routine maintenance.

The finer details

This is an integrated training and assessment course.

Successfully complete it and you'll receive a certificate of competence.

You'll learn to use the brushcutter/trimmer safely and with confidence.

Understanding all the relevant regulations and safety requirements is key. You'll be taught the need for the correct protective clothing and how best to maintain a safe working environment.

Course sessions:

• Prepare for brushcutter/trimmer operations

• Brushcutter/trimmer maintenance

• Battery operated machines

• Operating the brushcutter/trimmer

• Clearing the site and machine checks

Some of you might need longer than the stated guide times to fully understand the information and training provided.

 Power Pole Pruner.

 

Work with a potentially dangerous tool safely and effectively on our two-day training and assessment course.

You'll need to be confident operating and maintaining powered pole pruners to minimise the risk of accidents.

Our course will give you that confidence.

It's ideal if you work in a number of industries, from agriculture to woodland

This is an integrated training and assessment course.

You'll receive a certificate upon successful completion.

You'll learn health and safety requirements and how to maintain the machine.

Pre-cutting tests will be explained before you move on to practical work.

Course sessions:

• HSE legislation and safety guidelines

• Safety features of a powered pole pruner

• Maintaining the powered pole pruner chain

• Maintaining the guide bar

• Engine maintenance

• Starting the pruning saw and pre-cut checks

• Clear and tidy working area and pruning saw checks.

Worth Noting: There is a physical element to this course. As a result, a minimum level of fitness is an essential requirement.

 Clearing saw up-to and over 50mm

When a job is too big for a strimmer and too small for a chainsaw there is the clearing saw.

These versatile and powerful machines can make light work of plants up to small saplings.

Make sure that you are getting the most out of your machine in a safe and efficient manner by taking our clearing saw course.

The finer details

Clearing saws are used widely across many sectors for clearing overgrown ground cover.

Our course is a mix of theory and hands on teaching to ensure that when you have finished you know all that you need to know to start working with these powerful machines.

Our course is an ideal way of demonstrating that you and your employer have completed sufficient training to meet the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).

 

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