By the end
What you'll build
- Complete a pre-start inspection and record defects in terms a maintainer can act on
- Identify exclusion zones, blind spots and interaction risks around mobile plant
- Explain why maintenance work requires isolation and what evidence proves the isolation holds
- Recognise guarding, interlock and emergency-stop defects and take equipment out of service correctly
- Describe your site's lock-out sequence and each person's part in it
- Judge when equipment or a tool is not fit for the task and escalate
Curriculum
What's inside
7 modules · 43 lessons
- 01
How Plant Causes Harm
6 lessons- Crush, Entanglement and Uncontrolled Energy Release
- Mobile Plant and Fixed Plant Risk Profiles Compared
- Stored and Residual Energy in Idle Machines
- Noise, Vibration and Dust Generated by Equipment
- Ageing Plant and Carried-Over Defects
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Pre-Start and Daily Checks
6 lessons- Writing a Defect Report That Gets the Fault Fixed
- A Repeatable Walk-Around Inspection Order
- Fluids, Leaks and Fire Risk
- Fire Suppression and Extinguisher Checks
- Out-of-Service Tagging That Holds
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Working Around Mobile Plant
7 lessons- Positive Communication Before You Enter a Blind Spot
- Exclusion Zones and Safe Approach Distances
- Light Vehicle and Heavy Vehicle Interaction
- Parking, Chocking and Park-Up Areas
- Proximity Detection Systems and Their Limits
- + 2 more lessons
- 04
Guarding and Protective Systems
6 lessons- Why Defeating a Guard or Interlock Is a Fatal Decision
- Emergency Stops and Pull-Wire Systems
- Conveyor-Specific Hazards
- Rotating Equipment and Entanglement Points
- Reporting a Defeated Safety Device
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Maintenance Safety
7 lessons- Isolation Before Maintenance: Proving It, Not Assuming It
- Planned Versus Breakdown Maintenance Risk
- Working Under a Raised Load or Raised Body
- Tyre, Rim and Stored Pressure Hazards
- Hot Work on Plant
- + 2 more lessons
- 06
Tools and Fitness for Task
6 lessons- Deciding That Equipment Is Not Fit for the Task
- Right Tool, Right Task
- Portable Electrical Equipment Pre-Use Checks
- Lifting Gear Inspection Basics
- Registers, Inspection Records and Their Expiry
- + 1 more lesson
- 07
Practice and check
5 lessons- Match the situation to what controls itmatch pairs
- Proving an isolation before anyone reaches insequence order
- Complete the plant safety principlefill blank
- The jammed transfer chutescenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
43 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.