Pressure Systems Authorised Person (MECH4)
MECH4
This course is designed to meet the essential requirements of safe working procedures on pressure systems, assist employers & employees to reduce the risk of personal injury and to help prevent damage to assets due to operator error.
Course content
- Types of hazardous energy
- Kinetic/Potential/Electrical/ Thermal/Pressure/Chemical/ Stored Energy Hazards
- Requirements of statutory regulations/legislation.
- Guidance – HSG253
- Management of control of hazardous energy and safe isolations
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Risk Assessment
- Use of safety Documentation (inc PtW)
- Lock Out Tag Out
- Safety Locks and Tags (inc Multihasp)
- Methods of safe isolation using LOTO
- Energy Isolation Devices
- Safe Operating Procedures
- Creating, documenting and enforcing a safe working procedure to a LOTO plan.
- Verifying the isolation
- Pressure systems Regulations 2000
- Compressed air HSG39
- Practical isolation exercises
- Theoretical and Practical Final assessment
Who should attend?
Delegates who are to be appointed under safety rules with responsibility for the operation and maintenance of plant and who will be responsible for isolation of pressure systems. Those who may be nominated as an Approved Person or Isolating Authority within their organisation and need to demonstrate the appropriate level of experience of pressure systems isolation principles and the theory of safe isolation.
Certifications
Candidates who successfully complete the course and both theoretical and practical assessments will receive a Faraday competence certificate. Candidates who fail the competence assessments will receive a Faraday attendance certificate.
Delegates who are to be appointed under safety rules with responsibility for the operation and maintenance of plant and who will be responsible for isolation of pressure systems. Those who may be nominated as an Approved Person or Isolating Authority within their organisation and need to demonstrate the appropriate level of experience of pressure systems isolation principles and the theory of safe isolation.
