Rolo Health & Safety Awareness
Who’s the Course For?
This course is for landscape workers.
This training is a requirement for anyone who needs to gain or renew a LISS/CSCS Smart card
Course Duration
The course is a 1-day training and assessment event
Where
This course is delivered Online via our live online learning platform at our training centre in the Midlands and other locations across the UK, with our partners.
Certification
Candidates who successfully complete the course and pass the assessment will gain a Rolo Health & Safety Awareness Certificate, which is valid for 5-years, but must be less than 2 years old when applying for a card.
What is covered in the course?
- Accident prevention
- Health and Safety at Work Legislation
- Risk Assessment
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Site hazards
- Access – safe use of access equipment, including ladders and mobile elevating work platforms. The requirements for fall protection when working at height; of emergency provision, including the implications for lone working.
- Work equipment – the safe use of equipment such as power tools, abrasive wheels, and lifting equipment, site plant etc. To include the safe use of vehicles on site.
- Noise and vibration – the harmful effects of noise and vibration and how they may be controlled.
- Electricity on site – safe use of site electrical equipment and electrical distribution on site. Safety in dealing with buried and overhead electrical services.
- Gases – the requirements for safe working with pressure systems and gas cylinders. The potential harmful effects of industrial gases.
- Hazardous substances – the effects of harmful substances and the requirements for control under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations. Including the requirements for adequate hygiene facilities.
- Use of pesticides – correct control and use of pesticides at site, including the need for personal protective equipment during use.
- Manual handling – a discussion of the harm done to people by incorrect handling and the ways in which the risks can be controlled.
- Excavations and confined spaces – safety in excavations and when entering and working in confined spaces.
- Emergency procedures – to briefly review the need for fire, first aid and other forms
- Environmental issues
- End test
Course Dates and to book Online
What is ROLO?
ROLO (Register of Land-based Operations) is recognised by Build UK as one of the leading Health, Safety and Environmental Awareness Courses in the UK, designed exclusively for the Land-based industries by landscaping professionals.
ROLO was developed and is owned by the British Association of Landscape Industries to raise the standard of health and safety, and environmental awareness, and reduce the risk of accidents in the workplace. It also encourages employers to keep a record of workers in the Land-based sector who have achieved a recognised level of competence.
Why is ROLO important?
The Department of Trade & Industry made it a ‘duty of care’ that all trade bodies ensure that their members are adequately trained in health and safety and that all employers should demonstrate their personnel are correctly trained. In July 2014 the United Kingdom Contractors Group (UKCG) officially recognised BALI’s ROLO Health, Safety and Environmental Awareness Course under its UKCG Health and Safety Training Standard, now known as Build UK. Their Standard Document can be found here.