SPA/MPQC Quarry Passport in Runcorn, Cheshire (Classroom)
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SPA/MPQC Quarry Passport Course in Runcorn
The Safety Pass Alliance, or the SPA, is the most prominent safety passport awarding body in the UK. The SPA MPQC Quarry passport is run in conjunction with MPQC (formerly known as EPIC) and counts as a Level 2 QCF qualification.
What Does the SPA MPQC Quarry Passport Course Cover?
The SPA Quarry safety passport (sometimes known as the EPIC card) training course covers topics such as dust, confined spaces and hazard awareness.
Please note: This is NOT the Driver’s Skills card scheme.
Who Needs the SPA/MPQC Quarry Passport?
You may require a Quarry Safety Passport if you work on a quarry, in excavation or with mineral products in your job.
Delivery Method
This course is delivered in a traditional classroom setting in Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 4NH.
Course Duration
2 Days
Course Content
Introduction to ‘Quarry Day’
- HSE accident statistics
- Rationale for quarries regulations
- HSE target for improvement
Module 1
Part 1: Management of Health and Safety in Quarries
- Responsibilities
- The ‘Health and Safety Document’ (required by Quarry Regulations)
- Emergency and accident procedures
Part 2: Vehicle Safety
- Operator and pedestrian safety
- Operator visibility difficulties
- ‘Vehicle Rules’
- Parking considerations
Part 3: Danger Areas
- Defining ‘Danger Areas’
- Examples:
- Excavations, tips and free flowing materials
- Bitumen coating plants
- Railways and docks - Precautions during blasting operations
Part 4: Hazardous Operations
- Safety precautions during normal, maintenance and breakdown work
Fencing - Isolation / lock-off procedures
- Permit to Work and example applications - Confined spaces, crusher clearance, conveyor tensioners
Part 5: Health risks working in quarries
- Dusts, diseases, noise, vibration, and dehydration
- Control risks measures including PPE Excavations, tips and free flowing materials
- Bitumen coating plants
Part 6: Environmental Considerations
- Public perception of environmental impacts
- Powers of inspectors / enforcing authorities and penalties
- Precautions to avoid spillage and groundwater contamination
- Waste segregation and disposal
- Air pollution from dust and noise
- Hazards and precautions associated with landfills
- Ecology and Archaeology
Module 2: Safe Working Practises
- Safe use of mechanical lifting equipment
- Requirements of LOLER
- Signalling – authorised personal
- Control of lifting operations
- Hazards of slung loads and overhead lines
- Hazards in the use of Fork Lift Trucks
- Hazards of plant operations and precautions
Module 3: Excavations and Confined Spaces
- Safe working in excavations and confined space
- Precaution to prevent collapse
- Inspection requirements
- Access egress and prevention of falls
- Lighting, ventilation requirements
- Effect of weather
- Emergency procedure
- Confined space regulations
- Specified risks
- Control measures: basic precautions / permit
Module 4: Working at Heights
- Safe work on roofs
- Prevention of falls and falling objects
- Scaffolding – register and inspection requirements
- Mobile scaffold towers – precautions
- Safe use of Mobile Elevated Work Platforms
- Use and misuse of ladders
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