Unit
001 - Location and Avoidance of Underground Apparatus (1 Day)
This one-day course, often called Cat & Genny is designed
to make candidates aware of the dangers involved in excavating
on public
highway and private land and train them to detect and avoid
buried apparatus. Operatives or Supervisors can attend this
course
Objectives
The course is designed to make candidates aware of the dangers
involved in excavating on public highway and private land
and train
them to detect and avoid most buried apparatus. Everyone connected
with excavation will benefit from this course, including:
designers and planners, safety personnel, site management
and all operational staff including machine operators.
Course Content
• Responsibility under Health & Safety at Work Act.
• Responsibility to work to HSG47 (The avoidance of
underground services)
• Obtaining and understanding utilities drawings
• Observation of surface features – manholes,
lamp standard etc
• Use of locating Cat and Genny or similar.(Digi Cat)
• Careful excavation
• Practical assessment
Unit 002 - Signing Lighting
and Guarding (1 Day)
NRSWA Supervisors (unit 10) or NRSWA Operatives (unit 2) is
the requirement for all personnel employed by local authorities,
utilities companies and their contractors for the purpose
of any roadworks in the highway where they have to sign, light
& guard any
excavations or works on the highway or footpath.
Objectives
On completion of the course delegates will be able to:-
• Understand the safety implications of carrying out
streetworks, with particular reference to the protection of
persons engaged
on the works and avoidance of danger to the general public
• Appreciate the need to maintain the free movement
of vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the site of the works
to comply with
the restrictions imposed by the works and the adoption of
safe working practices
• Demonstrate the correct layout of appropriate signs,
barriers, lamps, warning notices etc in compliance with the
relevant
advisory documents
• Recognise conditions that may necessitate the introduction
of special measures such as the installation of portable traffic
signals, traffic diversion, road closure etc
• Maintain the correct operation of portable traffic
signals and reposition equipment as work proceeds
NRSWA
Streetworks 1-5 Days - Supervisors
NRSWA Streetworks, Units 1+10-14+16 are the standard units
required for NRSWA Supervisors who are required to monitor
&
supervise the opening up / excavation and re-instatement of
the highway as part of their working duties.
Objectives
For any supervisor charged with the responsibility of over
seeing excavation & reinstatement on the public highway,
to gain
accreditation to the standards laid down by City & Guilds
in line with the New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 for
excavation &
reinstatement
Course content
• Unit 001 - Location & avoidance
of underground services
• Unit 010 - Monitoring Signing, Lighting
& Guarding. Co-ordination procedures & code of practice
• Unit 011 - Monitoring Excavation
in the highway. Specifications, techniques, road types, materials
• Unit 012 - Monitoring Reinstatement
& compaction of backfill materials
• Unit 013 - Monitoring Reinstatement
of non-bituminous sub-base & road-base materials
• Unit 014 - Monitoring Laying practices
and reinstatement of cold lay bituminous materials. Specification
& types of
materials
• Unit 016 - Monitoring Reinstatement
of modular surfaces & concrete footways
To meet the legal requirements of people excavating in the
highway, the course must meet the City & Guilds criteria.
A suitable road
area to carry out all practical aspects of the course must
be available.
NRSWA Streetworks 1-5 Days -
Operatives
NRSWA Streetworks, Units 1-6+9 are the standard units required
for NRSWA Operatives who are required to open up / excavate
and
re-instate the highway as part of their working duties
Objectives
For any operatives involved in excavation & reinstatement
on the public highway, to gain accreditation to the standards
laid down by
City & Guilds in line with the New Roads & Street
Works Act 1991 for excavation & reinstatement
Course content
• Unit 001 - Location & avoidance
of underground services
• Unit 002 - Signing, Lighting &
Guarding
• Unit 003 - Excavation in the highway.
Specifications, techniques, road types, materials
• Unit 004 - Reinstatement & compaction
of backfill materials
• Unit 005 - Reinstatement of non-bituminous
sub-base & road-base materials
• Unit 006 - Laying practices and reinstatement
of cold lay bituminous materials. Specification & types
of materials.
• Unit 009 - Reinstatement of modular
surfaces & concrete footways
Please note:-
On site Requirements
To meet the legal requirements of people excavating in the
highway, the NRSWA course must meet the City & Guilds
criteria. If this
course is to be undertaken away from a training centre, adequate
facilities in the form of a roadway with the unpredicted movement
of
both vehicles and pedestrians, together with the necessary
signs, cones and barriers
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