Accredited Height Safety and Rescue Training

Practical, small-group training that gives your team the skills and confidence to work safely at height – delivered on site or at our training facility.

Keeping Your Employees Safe

If your team works at height, training isn’t optional, it’s a legal duty under the Work at Height Regulations 2005. But good training does more than tick a compliance box. It gives your people the knowledge to spot risk before it becomes an incident, and the confidence to get the job done properly.

What Your Team Learns

Your team learns everything from the basics of working at height through to rescue and descent systems, PPE competence and full-day height safety. Every course is built around real working practice: site awareness, fall protection planning, anchor systems, roof access, and the correct inspection, use and storage of equipment.

How Your Training Runs

Group sizes stay small, between six and ten delegates depending on the course – so your team gets hands-on time rather than sitting at the back of a classroom. Choose half-day or full-day sessions, delivered at your premises or on the site your team is working on.

Training Built Around You

If your team needs something more specific, courses are available on request covering equipment inspection and maintenance, work restraint and positioning, anchor point and cable system installation, rope access, tower and mast climbing, rooftop safety and horizontal and vertical lifeline systems.

Course 1- Height Safety Training

Duration: One day – Group size: Max 8

Our most comprehensive programme, covering the full picture of working safely at height. Delegates start with industry standards, current legislation and the duties and responsibilities set out in the Work at Height Regulations 2005, then move into practical principles and practices.

Course content includes:

  • Construction site awareness and site information
  • Work positioning systems
  • Fall protection considerations, swing falls and roof edges
  • Fall distance guide and fall protection systems
  • Anchor systems and access to the workplace
  • Roof types, structures and working on roofs
  • Using, inspecting and maintaining PPE
    Questions and feedback

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Course 2 – Rescue and Descent System

Duration: One day – Group size: Max 6

A fall arrest system is only half the plan – you also need a way to bring someone down safely. This course covers the statutory requirements and the practical skills needed to plan and carry out a rescue.

Course content includes:

  • Statutory requirements, including H.A.S.A.W.A. 1974 Sections 2, 7 and 8 — employer and employee responsibilities
  • Work at Height Regulations 2005 — duties and responsibilities
  • P.U.W.E.R. 1998 and associated regulations, including BS 8437:2005
  • Fall protection planning and traditional fall protection
  • Work positioning and fall arrest systems
  • Swing falls, edges, fall distance guide and anchor systems
  • Inspection, care and maintenance, including hooks
  • Care of individuals requiring rescue, and first aid awareness
  • Aptitude, fitness and training

Course 3 – On Site Training (Introduction to Working at Height)

Duration: Half day – Group size: Max 6

Delivered at your site, this is the ideal starting point for teams new to working at height, or a refresher for those who need one. It grounds the theory in the actual environment your people work in.

Course content includes:

  • Industry standards and current legislation
  • Work at Height Regulations 2005 — duties and responsibilities
    Site awareness and access to roof areas
  • Training to use fall arrest and fall restraint
  • Fall arrest systems and fall protection considerations
  • Working with PPE, and inspecting and maintaining it

Course 4 – PPE Competence

Duration: Half day – Group size: Max 10

Personal fall protection equipment only works if it’s the right kit, in good condition, worn correctly. This half-day course makes sure your team knows how to check it, use it and look after it.

Course content includes:

  • Statutory requirements and Work at Height Regulations 2005 duties
  • Pre-use inspection and visual basic checks
  • Using the correct PPE for the task
  • Different uses for PPE
  • Correct storage of PPE

Protect Your Team.

Tell us what your team does and where they do it, and we’ll recommend the right course. We deliver at your premises, on site, or at our training facility and we can build a bespoke specialist programme if none of the above quite fits.


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