Fall Protection Competent Person Training Course

The process of the fall protection competent person training takes roughly two days to complete and this is trained to personal to ensure that they bring the most to your company. The course is one that is done at PowerPoint and is given to the staff of your company that has others working under them, the main aim of the course is to make sure that the key workers are able to provide the rest of the staff with the effective training. The session is done with computers, as well as hands on, and there are demonstrations that are given as well as tests that are handed out at the end of the fall protection competent person training.

What the course entails are the following;

  • the importance of understanding the fall protection safety as well as the statistics that goes with it

  • the regulations that are required as well as when to put them in place when on the field

  • the hierarchy code that states; EPAA –elimination, prevention, arrest as well as administrative

  • the ABC – Anchorage, body sustain, connecting methods

  • the basic points of anchorage as well as the considerations that you have to bear in mind

  • the application of a full body harness as well as a demonstration

  • lanyards, one hundred percent tie off

  • there is an introduction that is given to the types of fall protection equipment

  • you will learn how to inspect fall arrest systems as well as the components that are involved there in

  • the considerations of rescue detail

  • at the end you are given a test to ensure that you are indeed prepared to undertake this task


The fall protection competent person training presentation is done in powerpoint as this would make it possible for everyone to see what the lesson is on and also there are pictures that are shown to the class as well. There is a manual that each end every member of the class would get hold of, all equipment that will be demonstrated on is provided for and it is asked that every student bring along their very own fall arrest equipment for the use in demonstrations.

The whole relevance of this course is to ensure that there is sensible teaching as well as modus operandi that will be useful to the employee of a company in order to show the ability as to instruct their co-workers. There will be documentation given at the end of the course that will prove that the employee has completed this course and now has the experience of the fall protection. This has to be the most single achievements that you are able to give yourself as will be given. There is nothing more than having something of this nature under your belt and having it to show off to everyone. You have to bear in mind that you are now the owner of fall protection competent person training and this would take many years to fulfill.