Davis Access delivers professional Power Tool Safety training courses from our Bristol training centre and onsite across the UK. This workplace safety course is designed for operatives, supervisors and managers who use portable and electrical power tools, helping improve hazard awareness, safe operating procedures, equipment inspections and compliance with current health and safety regulations across construction, engineering, maintenance and industrial environments.

Health & safety must be your priority whilst using any type of power tool.

Training & experience combined are normally enough to keep everybody safe, but complacency could well be your biggest danger.

Cutting corners or taking shortcuts is a major factor in accidents in the workplace involving the use of power tools.

What’s covered?

• Health & safety
• Legislation
• Types of equipment
• P.E
• Risk assessment & method statements
• Hazards
• Accident statistics
• Gallery of disaster
• Conclusion
• Practical session

Is this the right course for me?

This training course will provide delegates with the principles and practices of safe use of power tools.  Training will provide the necessary information to delegates who may undertake power tool operations including the storage and maintenance.

At the end of the course, you will have an understanding of:

• Different types of Power Tool
• How to carry out a risk assessment
• How to identify risks and hazards
• Pre-use inspections of equipment
• Legal responsibilities of the employer and employee
• Which control measures can be put in place to reduce the risk of harm
• Causes of injury and potential long-term damage to health because of poor techniques

Course details

• Aimed at: Anyone who uses power tools
• Duration: 0.5 day
• Maximum class size: 12
• Qualification length: 5 years
• On-site training available: Yes

Assessment details

The qualification is assessed through a theory assessment paper which the learner must successfully pass. Once completed the delegate will be awarded the Davis Access Power Tools qualification.