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Plant and vehicle marshaller (experienced)

Overview

This standard is exclusively for use by Approved Training Organisations (ATOs). The purpose and scope of this standard is to provide the learner with the skills and knowledge to support the following scope.

Duration

For each learner – 7 hours

This time does not include assessment time.

Learners must cover all learning outcomes of the standard in full, the trainer must decide and be able to demonstrate and document their decisions for choosing the learners route based on their knowledge and skills through a documented profiling approach. Evidence of the profiling and decisions must be kept and made available on request.

Learners pre-requisites

The learner holds a current industry recognised red card within the plant category or has equivalent experience. The trainer must decide and be able to demonstrate a thorough initial assessment and document their decisions for choosing the experienced route based on the learners knowledge and skills through a documented profiling approach.

Purpose/scope

The purpose and scope of this standard is to provide the learner with the knowledge and skills to support the following:

  • role and responsibilities of the plant and vehicle marshaller
  • legal obligations related to managing vehicle movements on site
  • ensuring effective pedestrian segregation
  • the use of recognised hand signals and other methods of communication
  • planning and controlling for safety of vehicle movement
  • risk assessment of the working area
  • this does not include bringing vehicles and plant onto site

Occupational relevance

Training delivered against this standard would be relevant to the following occupational group(s):

  • operative and craft
  • supervision
  • management and leadership

Instruction/supervision

As a minimum, course trainers must be able to demonstrate that, in relation to this standard, they have:

Essential:

either

  • a current card issued by one of the CSCS partner plant schemes at instructor/trainer/assessor level bearing the category of plant and vehicle marshaller

or

  • a current card issued by one of the CSCS partner plant schemes at operator level bearing the category of plant and vehicle marshaller

  • Level 3 Award in Education and Training or equivalent qualification listed in Appendix 3 of the Requirements for Approved Training Organisations
  • health and safety qualification at or equivalent to construction site management level, examples of which can be found in Appendix 6 of the Requirements for Approved Training Organisations
  • in addition to the required qualifications, the trainer must be able to demonstrate occupational experience relating to the training they are delivering. This can be demonstrated with a minimum of 1 years’ site experience.

Desirable:

  • SCQF Level 5/NVQ Level 2 Plant Operations in the specific category being trained
  • Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement

Delivery

Training and assessment may be delivered in an on or off-site environment.

Where training and assessment takes place within a working construction site environment, training must be segregated from productive work within a prescribed training area, which has been risk assessed and has appropriate control measures in place as required by current legislation and regulations.

All equipment required for the training must be set aside specifically for the training session and be available for the entire training duration. Equipment is not to be shared with the working construction site.

Welfare facilities must be provided wherever training and assessment takes place, and this should meet relevant legislation.

All materials and equipment must be of a suitable quality and quantity for learners to achieve the learning outcomes delivery and assessment criteria, and must comply with relevant legislation, regulations and industry agreed requirements.

The class size and learner/trainer ratio must allow training to be delivered in a safe manner and enable learners to achieve the learning outcomes.

This must not exceed 3 learners: 1 trainer

Irrespective of the number of learners, effective learning must be maintained for all learners.

The following training delivery methods may be used in the delivery of this standard:

  • face to face learning environment (such as a classroom/workshop/site office) for theoretical learning and assessment
  • on or off the job site environment for practical learning and assessment
  • simulator for practical training

note – if a simulator is used, it can only comprise of a total of 20% of overall practical training and must not be used in any assessment.

This standard is considered to contain 70% or more practical training.

Assessment

For the successful completion of training, learners must complete an end of course practical assessment and knowledge test that has a clear pass or fail criteria as set out by the card scheme. The marking criteria must effectively measure every aspect of each learning outcome and additional guidance for training and assessment.

Assessment must adhere to all points on the CITB Requirements for Approved Training Organisations including Appendix 6 which provides further guidance for assessment.

Quality assurance

Recognised standard

CITB will gain assurance through the Recognised Organisations’ quality arrangements.

Approved Training Organisations’ will be required to supply confirmation of approval (centre approval and scheme approval) with the related Recognised Organisations’ awarding organisation or body. In most cases this will be an approval certificate provided by the Recognised Organisations’ awarding organisation or body, listing the routes, qualifications, and categories they are approved to deliver. In addition, a copy of the most recent external quality assurance monitoring report will be required, relating to the standard that you wish to be approved for.

This information will be reviewed by CITB’s quality assurance team. Approval will be subject to the required Recognised Organisations’ documentation being supplied by you. As part of the quality assurance checks, CITB may confirm the accuracy of documentation with the issuing organisation.

Please refer to the Requirements for Approved Training Organisations Appendix 6 for further guidance on quality assurance.

Renewal

There are no mandatory renewal or recommended refresher requirements for this standard.

Classification

Lifetime (Please note standards using this classification will only be grant aided once per learner)

Approval date

September 2022

Review cycle

On request or 5 years from approval date.

Learner outcomes

Including additional guidance to support training delivery and final assessment - Plant and vehicle marshaller (Experienced) learning outcomes (PDF, 155KB)

Additional information about this standard

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3242/contents/made

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

https://www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/hswa.htm

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

https://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm/2015/index.htm

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/puwer.htm

A guide to workplace transport safety HSG 136 - HSE (Health & Safety Executive) (Health & Safety Executive)

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg136.htm

Safety signs and signals. The Health and Safety Regulations 1996

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/l64.htm

The Work at Height Regulations 2005

https://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/index.htm

Where EU legislation is listed this should be followed unless superseded by updated legislation, as result of (but not limited to) Brexit.

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