Power Tool Safety
The Power-tool Safety Principles Course provides training to help individuals to work safely, understand current legislation and promote awareness of the dangers and hazards of portable power tools. The course is industry specific and the range of power tools covered during the course can be tailored to suit your needs. these tools can be extremely dangerous to operate if untrained in safe use of power tools. Workers do lose fingers, they are electrocuted, and they do develop cancers. That’s why it’s so important to ensure your employees are trained on the safe use of power tools.
- Legal requirements and responsibilities.
- Selection of correct standard of personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Noise Awareness and legal requirements
- Hand Arm Vibration Awareness and legal requirements
- Electrical Safety – pre use checks
- Dust Awareness- effects of dust ,control of dust and RPE
- Pre Use Inspections
- Fuel Awareness –
- Safe use of power tools
- In-use maintenance and cleaning of power tools
- Correct storage of power tool