Tool Hire Product Awareness training (THPAT) for hammers, breakers, drills
Overview
Duration
Minimum 1 day of 6 learning hours
Purpose/scope
Purpose:
Will be able to provide the best advice and demonstration of product as to suitability to customers requirements for particular job to secure the hire business
Scope:
Will be able to
- Adapt approach for a variety of hirers - professionals, semi-professionals and domestic.
- Provide advice about equipment performance characteristics and suitability to possible hire contract for the variety of power sources available
- advise on additional equipment required such as drill or breaker bits; attachments; specific PPE for safe use;
- demonstrate safe start up, use and shut down of equipment (where possible)
- advise on routine maintenance and what to do in the event of equipment failure
- provide relevant product ‘hire - use of’ documentation/leaflets
across the range of Hammer, drills and breakers available for hire.
Hammers
- Rotary hammer - 110/230v such as Kango 900 demolition hammer - 110/230v; Kango 950 rotary hammer - 110/230v
Breakers
- Heavy - compressed air & 110/230v such as Bosch heavy duty breakers - 110/230v
- Light/medium - 110/230v; Hydraulic - Petrol; diesel powered; 2 stroke such as
- JCB Beaver hydraulic breaker - Petrol; Hilti TE76
Drills
- Percussion drills- 110/230v;
- Rotary drill - 110/230v
- Cordless Drill/driver
- Engineer’s drill - 110/230v
- Diamond drill - Hand held - 110/230v
- Diamond drill rig - 110/230v
- Broaching machine - 110/230v
Occupational relevance
Training delivered against this standard would be relevant to the following occupational group(s):
- operative and craft
- supervision
Candidate pre-requisites
There are no candidate pre-requisites as part of this standard. However, a basic knowledge of hire terminology and techniques would be beneficial.
Instruction/supervision
As a minimum, course instructors must be able to demonstrate that, in relation to this standard, they have:
- a qualified trainer
- Successfully completed training to this standard
- At least 2 years relevant industrial experience
- A verifiable CV
Delivery
Delivery will be in an off the job environment.
All materials and equipment must be of a suitable quality and quantity for candidates to achieve learning outcomes, and must comply with relevant legislation.
The class size and candidate/instructor ratio must allow training to be delivered in a safe manner and enable candidates to achieve the learning outcomes.
The following delivery methods may/may not be used in the delivery of this standard:
- classroom
- Practical training area
This standard is considered to contain 51% or more practical training.
One of the following statements must be included as guidance within this section of the standard (please delete the other ones as appropriate).
This standard is considered to be set at intermediate level.
Assessment
For the successful completion of training, the trainer must be satisfied that the candidate has achieved all of the learning outcomes.
Quality assurance
Assured
Quality assurance against this standard will require initial approval of the training organisation and their content mapped to the standard.
CITB will also conduct an approval intervention, either desk-based or centre visit, to ensure the training organisation can meet the requirements of the training standard.
Approved training organisations (ATOs) will be required to present information on records of training and assessment upon request to CITB for desk based analysis. They will also be visited annually by the CITB quality assurance team.
Renewal
There are no mandatory renewal or recommended refreshment requirements for this standard - unless new equipment categories within the hire sector become available
Approval date
March 2020
Review cycle
On request or 3 years from approval date
Learning outcomes
The candidate will be able to: |
Additional guidance to support learning outcome |
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Across the range of Hammer, drills and breakers available for hire the learner will be able to: |
Hammers: Rotary hammer - 110/230v such as Kango 900 demolition hammer - 110/230v; Kango 950 rotary hammer - 110/230v Breakers: Heavy - compressed air & 110/230v such as Bosch heavy duty breakers - 110/230v: Light/medium - 110/230v; Hydraulic - Petrol; diesel powered; 2 stroke such as JCB Beaver hydraulic breaker - Petrol; Hilti TE76 Drills: Percussion drills- 110/230v; Rotary drill - 110/230v; Cordless Drill/driver; Engineer’s drill - 110/230v; Diamond drill - Hand held - 110/230v; Diamond drill rig - 110/230v; Broaching machine - 110/230v |
a) Provide advice about equipment performance characteristics and suitability to customers requirements for particular job across the variety of power sources available |
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b) Advise on additional equipment required such as drill or breaker bits; attachments; specific PPE for safe use; |
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c) Demonstrate safe start up, use and shut down of equipment (where possible) |
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d) Advise on routine maintenance and what to do in the event of equipment failure |
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e) Provide relevant product ‘hire - use of’ documentation/leaflets |
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Additional information about this standard
Useful guidance on starting/stopping/use of Hammers, Breakers and Drills equipment is available in HAE Safety Guidance notes:
- 0501 Percussion drill - 110/230v; 0503 Rotary hammer - 110/230v
- 0504 Breaker - compressed air; 0505 Heavy breaker - 110/230v
- 0506 Breaker - light/medium - 110/230v; 0507 Rotary drill - 110/230v
- 0508 Cordless Drill/driver; 0510 Broaching machine - 110/230v
- 0512 Engineer’s drill - 110/230v; 0514 Diamond drill - Hand held - 110/230v
- 0515 Diamond drill rig - 110/230v; 0518 Breaker - Hydraulic - Petrol
- 0519 Breaker - Hydraulic - Diesel; 0525 Breaker - 2 stroke - Petrol
- 2205 Hilti TE76; 2507 Kango 900 demolition hammer - 110/230v
- 2508 Kango 950 rotary hammer - 110/230v; 2572 Bosch heavy duty breakers - 110/230v
- 2803 JCB Beaver hydraulic breaker - Petrol
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