Elevating Work Platforms (EWPs) offers safe solutions to challenges presented when working at heights. Acute Safety Services makes sure you’re well equipped to use them properly – contact us today for the best training!

 

Elevating Work Platforms: 3 Things You Need to Know

What will you learn?

The elevating work platforms training course has been constructed to prepare you for the safe use of EWPs. The theory module covers all classes of EWPs, while the practical module covers only the type of EWPs used in your specific workplace.

Training topics include:

  • Legislation and standards
  • Hazards and safe work practices
  • Platform stability
  • Classes and features
  • Safe operating procedures
  • Inspections
  • Class-specific skill testing

Over the course of the 8-hour training session, you will learn through classroom interaction with experienced instructors, demonstrations, and hands-on training on a specific class of EWP. You will also learn through practical skills testing evaluation, detailed handouts, videos, and quizzes. Here’s a quick snapshot of what you can expect from ACUTE’s course:

 

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Who needs training?

Elevating work platforms primarily include scissor lifts and boom lifts. They are used to assist with working at heights.

According to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, “Improper use of access equipment on construction projects continues to cause workplace injuries in Ontario. The use of elevating work platforms may put workers at risk when the equipment is not adequately used, maintained or stored, or when manufacturer’s instructions are not followed and equipment limitations are not respected.”

Therefore, anyone who works with or around elevating work platforms, including those in supervisory positions, should take this training before beginning their duties.

Industries that commonly use EWPs include:

  • Construction
  • Building maintenance
  • Electric line repair
  • Retail
  • Warehouses

 

Elevating Work Platforms offer safe solutions for working at heights challenges

 

Why is hands-on training the way to go?

Before working on an EWP, you need real-life practice and simulated workplace simulation. Proper, hands-on training is essential when learning how to protect yourself from and prevent potential risks and hazards.

Simply put, online training can’t adequately help workers learn how to avoid and respond to potential hazards when on the job. EWPs qualify as heavy machinery and can be potentially deadly when misused. Working with real EWPs in ACUTE’s world-class training facility with highly experienced professional trainers, for example, is the best way to prepare workers for real-world situations.

Here are some of the major benefits of the type of practical training offered by ACUTE:

  • Collaboration – When students are given opportunities to interact, they often come out with a more well-rounded and deeper appreciation of the knowledge being transmitted.
  • Audience Engagement –  Hands-on training allows instructors to slow down and explain or speed up as necessary.
  • Interactive Sessions – Interactive question and answer opportunities can help round out an employee’s learning experience and clarify any misunderstandings.
  • Practice and Simulation This helps to ensure that the learned content is not only cognitively stored but actively used.

 

Get the best hands-on training with ACUTE!

 

Trust ACUTE for Safety Training on Elevated Work Platforms

With over 100 years of combined industry experience, you can trust that with ACUTE, you will experience only the best comprehensive, hands-on Elevated Work Platforms training. Here are some ways that ACUTE goes beyond government compliance in Ontario health and safety training.

    • Open Door Instructor-Student PartnershAcute Safetyip: ACUTE’s training services emphasize client participation. Staff foster relationships with clients and serve as a touchstone for advice moving forward.
    • Serving Your Team and Industry: With a vast array of clients in the manufacturing, construction, health, academic, and government sectors, ACUTE brings the best safety practices from across the spectrum to your workplace.
    • 100 Years Combined Experience: ACUTE provides comprehensive health and safety training, on-site safety services, and consulting services. With over 100 years of combined experience, our staff offers more than theoretical or abstract ideas. ACUTE offers solutions.
    • Track Record of Success: ACUTE is rated 4.9/5 stars on Google reviews, demonstrating a commitment to our clients, quality, and a passion for training.

 

“ACUTE has been training Laurier’s maintenance staff for years. Acute’s trainers are knowledgeable, experienced and service driven. Great combination! Great training!”

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Acute Safety & Safety Services provides a wide range of employee safety training courses and is located in Waterloo, Ontario. Acute services customers from cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, and from across Ontario and North America.