Overview
NEXT AVAILABLE COURSE: February 26th| PRICE: €1,550 per candidate
Become an invaluable member of your maintenance team by gaining the expertise to identify and mitigate potential hazards, effectively control hazardous energy sources, and understand guarding, isolating and interlocking devices. Learners will get hands-on experience in selecting, installing and risk assessing safety components to mitigate existing risks on a purpose-built automated training machine.
Who should attend the QQI Level 6 Machine Safety & Control of Hazardous Energies:
Maintenance staff including operators and technicians involved in the operation, maintenance, and servicing of machinery and equipment in industrial and manufacturing settings. It is also essential training for new hires as part of general induction training introducing them to foundational safety training and company safety protocols.
Why should I attend?
The consequences of failing to control hazardous energies when carrying out maintenance activities can be devastating, and this programme will develop an understanding of safety as a core value and how individual efforts can contribute to a safety-first culture within an organisation. The programme will develop an understanding of legislative requirements in relation to safety in the workplace and learners will be taught that operating machines safely can contribute to Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) reducing downtime and increasing efficiencies.
This course has a strong emphasis on reinforcing the responsibilities and requirements of EU, international and national legislation. The use of real-life case study applications and an insight into how legislation influences machine design solutions will bring everyday reality and application to the legal requirements. Working in small groups learners will work through maintenance environment scenarios and implement hazardous energies controls using problem-based learning techniques such as applying risk scoring systems to different applications. Purpose-designed training equipment will provide learners with opportunities to evaluate different safety controls in action.
Course Objectives
And the end of the course learners will be able to:
- Describe the relevant requirements of current national, European, and international legislation and directives that govern machine safety and Control of Hazardous Energies.
- Evaluate a broad range of typical hazards and risks when working with industrial automated machines.
- Describe the main categories and properties of hazardous and stored energies, and identify the potential hazards and injuries associated with each category
- Explain the operating principles of enabling devices used in the control of hazardous energies.
- Demonstrate the selection of appropriate devices or control systems including L.O.T.O (Lock out Tag Out) to mitigate the risk associated with the control of hazardous energies.
- Evaluate risk assessments to identify hazards and the precautions associated with each task or activity when carrying out maintenance and troubleshooting activities
Course Modules
Safety Legislation – Machine Safety – What you will learn
- Setting the Context – review of case studies that resulted in injuries and near miss incidents where the key root cause was hazardous energy – setting the context as to the need for regulation, standards and control and guarding devices and safe systems of work.
- Overview of the key legislation and machine safety directives – including Irish, EU, UK, and international requirements
Control of Hazardous Energies – What you will learn
- Typical injuries and consequences associated with failing to control hazardous energies.
- The properties, categories and sources of key Hazardous and stored energies and the potential hazards and risks associated with each type – including Electrical, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Dust/Air, Thermal, Chemical, Kinetic, Potential, Gas, Steam, Water.
- Primary areas of contact when working with machines – point of operation, operating controls, and power transmission devices.
- Factors to consider when making safe / isolating.
Risk Assessment & Safe Systems of Work – What you will learn
- What is a Risk Assessment, its purpose, and objectives.
- Key Elements of a Risk Assessment & how to evaluate. Register of Risk Assessments.
- Steps involved in carrying out a Risk Assessment – roles and responsibilities.
- Safe Systems of Work, safety statements, training, site inductions, first-aid, evacuation, first responders, roles, and responsibilities.
- Permits to work / Contractors.
- Documentation and procedures.
- Incident and accident – targets, monitoring, and reporting.
- Safety Audits
- Human Failure, Non-Compliance/Violations – the impact of.
Machine Safety – Controls & Guarding – What you will learn
- Principles of operation of guarding and machine safety devices, and the application(s) to the hazards they can potentially protect against when working in the vicinity of hazardous and stored energies.
- Machine Guards
- Safety Interlocking Switches
- Light Curtains & Laser Scanners • Emergency Stops & Ropes/Cords
- Safety Mats & Edge Bumpers
- Safety Controllers
- Enabling Switches /Operator Controls
- Lock-out-Tag-Out – The “Fatal Five” Main Causes of Lockout/Tagout Injuries
- -Failure to shut down or improperly shut down the machine
- -Failure to isolate or improperly isolate the power source
- -Failure to correctly dispose of residual energy Accidental re-starting of equipment
- -Failure to set up the work floor correctly.
- Demonstration of Lock-Out-Tag-Out.
- Typical LOTO devices and their application.
- Inspection criteria & frequency
COURSE DELIVERY
- The course is delivered over 6 instructor led days. There are self directed hours to be completed before the course starts, between course days and before exams.
- Course days are scheduled over 3 weeks to enable sufficient time for self directed learning.
- Maximum group size of 8 to ensure individual attention and pace can be adjusted to learner needs
- Highly qualified and experienced trainers.
- Courseware includes quizzes and interactive learning materials and workbooks for practical exercises and revision
- Students will need a laptop or tablet to complete the course. Technotraining may be able to provide a laptop for the duration of the course, depending on availability
QQI Assessment
- Theory Examination. 40% of overall mark
- Practical Examination.
- Project.
- The pass mark for all assessments is 50%
QQI Accreditation and Progression
- 6N224788 QQI Level 6 Minor award in Machine Safety & Control of Hazardous Energies
- This Award is one component required for the Advanced Certificate in Industrial Automation Technology 6M25693
Entry Requirements
No previous formal qualification is required but learners should have relevant work or life experience to have reached the standards of knowledge, skill and competence associated with Level 5 of the National Framework of Qualifications.
Though no specific qualification is required entrants should have some prior technical or mechanical experience or knowledge. Ideally they would have had exposure to electrically controlled equipment and/or a manufacturing environment.
Competence in written and spoken English is essential. International students whose first language is not English are required to have an appropriate score in an approved examination in English language. We accept an IELTS test score of 6. We also accept IELTS equivalents such as TOELF, Cambridge exams and Duolingo English Test.
Learners should have good computer literacy skills. This includes use of email, microsoft word, internet searches. Self-directed learning also requires learners to have good self motivation and time management skills. Again, further details and tips can be found in the Learner Handbook. You will be required to have a laptop computer.
If you would like to assess your entry level knowledge, relative to course content, please contact us and we can set you up with a free trial on our e-learning platform.
RPL is a process whereby a learner with prior qualifications and/or relevant work experience may apply to exemptions from attending the full course. Note learners will still need to pass the assessments. You will be asked to submit an application form for RPL and will be required to provide proof of qualification. RPL requirements are different for different courses and awards.
When we receive your booking request we will call you to go through an enrolment checklist with you to ensure that you meet all entry requirements for the course you have selected.
If you have any questions before making a booking request, we’d love to hear from you.
This course is funded by the Engineering Skillnet. Please contact Fiona Fennell [email protected] for further details.
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