Tow Truck Course
This course is for new operators to be trained in the safe use of a tow truck, covering a range of aspects as detailed below.
AIM
Operators will be with a full overview of the truck and its functionality, best practice driving techniques, battery maintenance. The course also teaches operator to negotiate chicanes, attached trailers and reverse in to confided locations.
COURSE CONTENT
- The importance of training
- Health and Safety at Work Act
- Provision and use of Work Equipment Regulation
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
- Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations
- Accidents and associated risks
- Equipment Overview
- Instability factors
- Gradient when driving
- Seatbelts
- Battery care and maintenance or refueling
- Pre-use checks and defect reporting
- Practical training
- Theory, pre-use checks
- Testing
METHODOLOGY
The programme of structured classroom lectures and discussion sessions, employing the use of slides, films, and supervised machine operating practice, culminating in a theoretical and practical test of competence in operating PPT & training deliver techniques.
TRAINING LOCATION
On or off site
INSTRUCTION & CERTIFICATION
All instruction and certification in conducted by accredited instructors who are qualified as such in their respective disciplines.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Successful candidates are issued with a Jungheinrich certificate in training on Tow Trucks.
COURSE DURATION
1 Day