Knowledge Base

This course covers the following information:

Walking and Working Surfaces: The Fundamentals of Safe Surfaces

• How to recognize conditions that increase the risk of slips, trips and falls on walking and working surfaces.
  
• How good housekeeping and "guarding" can reduce these hazards.
  
• The importance of knowing a floor's "load rating limit".
  

Walking and Working Surfaces: Walkways and Floors

• How clearly marked aisles and passageways can help to prevent accidents.
  
• The hazards posed by openings in floors and walls, "catwalks" and open-sided platforms.
  
• How railings and toeboards can be used to mitigate these hazards.
  

Walking and Working Surfaces: Stairs and Fixed Ladders

• How unsafe behavior can cause accidents on stairways.
  
• How uniformity, strength and "guarding" of stairways can reduce slip, trip and fall risks.
  
• How personal fall protection can help to mitigate a fall from a fixed ladder.
  

Walking and Working Surfaces: Portable Ladders

• How to properly inspect and set up a portable ladder.
  
• The danger of using portable ladders near power lines or energized equipment.
  
• How to use the "four-to-one ratio" to determine a safe and stable ladder set-up angle.
  

Walking and Working Surfaces: Scaffolding

• The hazards you can face when working on a scaffold.
  
• How "guarding" and personal fall protection can be used to mitigate the effect of a fall from a scaffold.
  
• Under what conditions you should not work on a scaffold.