• Requirements to safely perform work in elevated positions
• The planning process to prepare for work in elevated positions
• Method used to conduct work in elevated positions
• Requirements to correctly inspect, care for and store fall arrest equipment
• The need to ensure correct and meticulous record keeping 
• The safety, health and environmental principles with regards to working platforms, ladders, scaffolds and walkways in elevated positions.
•  Ladders
  • Application
  • Selection
  • Process
  • Training
  • Sherpamatic
  • Stepladders
  • Ladder Inspection Checklist
• Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPS)
• Podiums and podium steps Access towers
  • Podium tower
  • Podium steps
  • Tower scaffolds
  • Maximum Height Of A Mobile Tower
  • Competent person
  • 2 approved methods for the erection of towers
  • Using the tower, Moving tower scaffolds
  • Inspections and Reports
  • Third Parties
  • Dismantling A Tower.
• Roof work
  • Duration of Work
  • Planning
  • Access To Roof/Exit From Roof
  • Edge Protection
  • Standards are:
  • Work Platform
  • Fall Arrest
  • Explosive actuated fastening device
  • Rope Access Work
  • Construction vehicles and mobile plant
  • Electrical installations and machinery on construction sites
  • Use of harnesses
  • Hooking on
    Falling materials and equipment
  • Weather conditions
  • Fragile roofs
  • Sloping Roofs
  • Fall arrest
  • Personal fall arrest system
  • Types of fall-protection systems
• Describe the requirements to correctly inspect, care for and store fall arrest equipment
• Inspection consideration
• Maintenance and storage
• Workplace safety standards
• Instructions for scaffolds
• Describe the safety, health and environmental principles with regards to working platforms, ladders, scaffolds and walkways in elevated positions
• Working platforms specification
• Guarding on a mast climbing work platform
• Ways to minimise the risk of injury

• Comprehensive course notes and illustrations.
• Progress quizzes keep learning on track.
  An overhead slide presentation providing supplementary.
• Videos to illustrate best practices, case studies, and operational examples.
• A learner workbook including progress quizzes.
• Practical sessions 
• Light refreshment is provided for classroom courses
• Has attended certificate – Short course
• CETA certificate of competence – statement of results. Issued approximately 6 – 8 months (Costs extra R400.00 excluding VAT). 

At the end of this course, delegates should have the  knowledge and understanding of the requirements applicable to:

• Performing work in elevated positions
• Inspecting, caring for and storing fall arrest equipment effectively.
• The safety, health and environmental principles regarding safe construction and maintenance of  working platform, ladders, scaffolds and walkways in elevated positions.

It is desirable for learners wishing to achieve this unit standard to be competent at

• Communication at ABET level 3 or equivalent
• Mathematical Literacy at ABET Level 3 or equivalent   

For a short course: Successful delegates will receive a has attended certificate. (Normal course fee is charged)

For a certificate of competence – statement of result from CETA, a portfolio of evidence must be submitted by candidates and they must be found “competent” upon completion of course. (This costs an extra R400).

Statement of Results are issued digitally after approximately 6 – 8 months.

South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique Botswana & Namibia