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Working at Heights

Awareness of fall risk: hazard recognition, edge protection, access equipment, fall-arrest principles, dropped objects and rescue planning.

What this course does not do

This course does not authorise you to work at height, to select, inspect or certify fall protection equipment, to erect or alter scaffold, or to carry out a fall rescue. Those competences are proven by practical assessment on the actual equipment and, in most places, by a credential or scaffolding licence obtained outside this platform.

Required for this roleCoreMining Safety
6 modules 35 lessons 3 enrolled ~4h of material
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Working at Heights

By the end

What you'll build

  • Identify fall hazards, including falls below the height threshold used on your site
  • Explain why collective protection such as edge protection is preferred over personal fall protection
  • Describe how a fall-arrest system works, including anchor, connector, harness and required clearance
  • Recognise unsafe or untagged access equipment and take it out of service
  • Explain why a rescue plan is required before work starts and why post-fall suspension is time critical

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 35 lessons

  1. 01

    Understanding Fall Risk

    6 lessons
    • Low Falls, Serious Injuries: Why Height Thresholds Mislead
    • Where Fall Hazards Sit on a Mining Site
    • Falls on the Same Level Versus Falls From Height
    • Openings, Voids and Fragile Surfaces
    • Weather, Light and Ground Conditions
    • + 1 more lesson
  2. 02

    Controlling the Risk

    6 lessons
    • Designing the Fall Out of the Job
    • Doing the Work From the Ground Where Possible
    • Edge Protection, Covers and Barricades
    • Work Positioning Versus Fall Arrest
    • Restraint Systems and Their Limits
    • + 1 more lesson
  3. 03

    Access Equipment

    6 lessons
    • Ladders: The Tasks a Ladder Is the Wrong Answer For
    • Scaffold Tags and What They Tell You
    • Elevating Work Platforms and Ground Conditions
    • Fixed Platforms, Walkways and Handrails
    • Inspecting and Rejecting Access Equipment
    • + 1 more lesson
  4. 04

    Fall Arrest Systems

    6 lessons
    • Anchor, Connector, Harness and Fall Clearance
    • Free Fall Distance and Deceleration
    • Swing Fall and Anchor Positioning
    • Pre-Use Inspection of Harnesses and Lanyards
    • Compatible Connections and Roll-Out
    • + 1 more lesson
  5. 05

    Dropped Objects and Rescue

    6 lessons
    • Rescue Planning Before the Harness Goes On
    • Suspension Intolerance and Why Time Matters
    • Tool Tethering and Securing Loose Items
    • Barricading the Zone Below Overhead Work
    • Reporting Near Misses Involving Height
    • + 1 more lesson
  6. 06

    Practice and check

    5 lessons
    • Hazard to Control at Heightmatch pairs
    • Before Anyone Goes Upsequence order
    • Fall Control in One Linefill blank
    • The Gate That Was Already Bentscenario
    • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

35 lessons across 6 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.

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