Banksman Coaching and Workshop
Workshop Overview
This course highlights the dangers associated with reversing large vehicles and the need to mitigate risk to reduce vehicle damage and injury to staff and passing pedestrians through the use of a banksperson.
Health & Safety requirement for the control of vehicle movement in confined areas.
Best practice techniques used in marshalling traffic.
Suitable for anyone involved in the control of large vehicle movements.
Delivery Formats
7.5 hours
up to 6 drivers
Course Review
What delegates are taking away in terms of knowledge and competency.
Complete an assessment and demonstration of key banksperson skills and discuss the training report.
Course Outline
Introduction
- Course objectives and current delegate experience.
- RIDDOR & HSE statistics (UK).
- Dangers and risks or having / not having a banksperson.
Banksperson training
- Why the requirement?
- What could go wrong and how to mitigate risk.
- Control measures.
- Banksperson hand signals.
- Roles of the banksperson when a vehicle is manoeuvring.
- Characteristics of large vehicles when reversing.
- Use of signals under instruction.
- Complex banksman signals.
- Undertaking a dynamic risk assessment on banksman positioning.
Logistics
Our Banksperson coaching is facilitated both in a classroom and in the customer yard area.
Classroom
To facilitate the classroom element, we will need:
- A room big enough to comfortably seat all attending.
- A wall to project an image onto.
Practical Banksperson training
For the practical Banksperson training we will require:
- Access to a safe a secure yard area to practice the skills.
- A vehicle and driver to be directed by the delegates.
- Customer to provide appropriate PPE e.g. high visibility jackets to delegates.
Our trainer will undertake a dynamic risk assessment prior to training and any risks that cannot be resolved may jeopardize the training. It is this customers responsibility to ensure all facilities are available and appropriate. Please discuss at time of booking.
