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Vocational Education & Training Standards in Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Safety at Heights

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Project Background: The VET-Safety project has been designed to the meet the needs of people involved within high risk work at height (WAH) activities particularly within the agricultural & environmental sectors of industry. The latest UK statistics indicate that the highest workplace fatalities occur within this sector. Previous project partner research also reported related health & safety conce ...
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Development of European occupational training & assessment standards for registered Independent LOLER inspectors in the workplace (LOLER)

Reduction of accidents working at heights is currently the number one priority of the UK HSE. The 2009 statistics for the UK alone show over 4000 major injuries were caused by falls from height at work (source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls/). Many of these accidents occur due to equipment failure which could have been preventable if equipment had been thoroughly examined prior to use (European Prio ...
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Evaluation and Implementation of Chainsaw Operators Certification

The rationale behind this project was the development of a common set of training and assessment standards for chainsaw operators which has been successfully achieved. Accidents, fatalities and associated economic & personal costs related to chainsaw use are too high and will be significantly reduced via the implementation of these new standards which will be, monitored & updated on a regular basi ...
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