Posted By Steven Taylor Can anyone point me in the direction of a company that can provide training for fall arrest/rescue harness equipment. I would like to train a selection of my own employees has instructors so they can provide future training for the rest of the users. I've been told by one company that this can no longer be done in case something goes wrong in the future and they are held liable. Seems a strange policy to me, surely this would be the same for fork lift and overhead crane instructors and probably just about any other training instructor. I tend more to think they just want to train our people themselves, any body aware of this policy? Thanks

Posted By Peter MacDonald Steven Check with Spanset with regard to their "Gotcha" rescue system as well. This system deals with the rescue of suspended persons before suspension trauma sets in. Peter

Posted By Jon Hookings Steven, I attended a train-the-trainer course a couple of years ago that was run by Sala Group ( now known as Capital Safety ). The course was 2 days and included everything you needed to know to train others. I don't have a current contact number, but you could try their website on www.capitalsafety.com One other alternative. I have also used a company called Endeavour 12 who carry out fall arrest, confined space and other training. If you contact John Parsons on the following e-mail address, he should be able to help you out - john.parsons@endeavour12.com Regards Jon

Posted By Peter MacDonald http://www.spanset.co.uk...ety_training/module5.htm

Posted By Steve Langston If you are within the Midlands you may wish to try the following: www.totalaccess.co.uk I have absolutely no link with the company other than I attended a very professional working at heights seminar there in October. The practical training facilities are excellent as they have a number of masts, pylons, roofs and other equipment etc to try the equipment out. Great fun at break times watching nervous trainees working 50+ feet in the air!! Steve

Posted By Andy Binstead i have an colleague who runs the sort of training you may be after - very practical, used by government departments etc etc. XI training, based in Lancashire, +44 01524782877, www.xitraining.co.uk. hope it helps!

Posted By Arleigh I have worked in the safety consulting business for 14 years and some person has not been truthful to you. As long as the person training is compentent they can train another person. ANSI recently has come out with a new training standard that must be followed when training. I have worked with DBI Sala Norh America as a trainer and have just recently went back to operating my own consulting company. When working with Capital Safety Group North America we had one of the leading train the traner program in the country. My company as well, has developed an instructor trainer program in fall protection. There tends to be a huge amount of information to digest when learning the fall arrest system.

Posted By Paul Grady there is a recent operational circular produced by HSE regarding emergency escape equipment - appropriate means for selection. This may help. The main thing to bear in mind is that training a person to use the equipment (i.e. rope access company) is not the same as evaluation and training of instructors (i.e. supervisor training, regardless of industry or application)

Posted By Steven Taylor Working at height and in confined spaces so we will be looking at rescue harness as well. I have now managed to persuade the company that I buy the harnesses off to change their training policy, so they will be training our trainers next week. Pity I had to threaten not to buy any more equipment off them, but hey it worked!!!! Thanks to everyone for their reponses and help.

Posted By David AB Thomas The HSE Operational Circular on 'Rope escape from mechnaical handling equipment' (referred to above) is available as: http://www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/20-3.htm

Posted By Chris Pope I've been very interested to see ocassional references to the emerging behavioural safety theme on this site. I think that if I had to escape from a forklift basket or order picker I would be safer using something familiar and with which I could easily recognise faults. I would in all cases prefer to use a ladder that I could tie onto a purpose made bracket and open a gate in the basket to descend than, in the event of an emergency, when my adrenilin kicks in, try hard to remember some training that I did even last week, let alone 12 months ago. My impression with training is that unless a person uses the skill they are trained in regularly they soon forget some essential component of it unless they have a photographic memory in which case they are likely to be a doctor not a cherry picker operator. The British Heart Foundation did some research on CPR which indicated that refresher training for CPR was needed by the average person every 6 months.