About Desert to Coast Training and Assessing

This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to provide a first aid response to a casualty in line with first aid guidelines determined by the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and other Australian national peak clinical bodies.

The unit applies to all persons who may be required to provide a first aid response in a range of situations, including community and workplace settings.

White Cards (or Construction Induction cards) are used in the construction, plumbing, and other industries. It is a mandatory requirement to work in the construction industry. This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely start work in the construction industry.

Licensing, legislative and certification requirements that apply to this unit can vary between states, territories and industry sectors. Users must check requirements with relevant body before applying the unit.

Course Summary

This course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely operate a hand-held chainsaw and maintain it in working condition.

This course applies to:

• Cross-cutting fallen timber using safe cutting techniques
• Individuals who apply low risk work procedures and comply with worksite health and safety requirements when operating hand-held chainsaws to carry out routine work

Confined space permits are used in the mining, construction and other industries where personnel are required to conduct work in areas which meets the confined space criteria listed below. This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely working in a confined space.

It applies to those working in operational roles. They generally work under supervision to undertake a prescribed range of functions involving known routines and procedures and take responsibility for the quality of work outcomes.

Licensing, legislative and certification requirements that apply to this unit can vary between states, territories and industry sectors. Users must check requirements with relevant body before applying the unit

This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to operate a forklift truck safely in accordance with all relevant legislative requirements. Competence in this unit, does not in itself result in a HRWL licence to operate this plant.

Forklift truck means a powered industrial truck equipped with lifting media made up of a mast and an elevating load carriage to which is attached a pair of fork arms or other attachments that can be raised 900 mm or more above the ground, but does not include a pedestrian-operated truck or a pallet truck.

This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to test the working atmosphere, using electronic test apparatus, to find out if it is safe for the proposed work.

It applies to situations where individuals may be required to carry out gas testing of an atmosphere prior to entering a specific area or workspace. The competency requires the person to interpret readings and take actions based on the interpretation.

Working environment may be hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, by day or night. Workplace atmospheres may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces.

EWP work is conducted in mining, construction and other industries where jobs are hard to reach and require machinery to reach it. This course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely operate a boom-type Elevating Work Platform (EWP) where the length of the boom is 11 metres or more in accordance with all relevant legislative requirements.

Competence in this unit, does not in itself result in a Risk Work Licence (HRWL) to operate this plant.

This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely operate a non-slewing mobile crane with a Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) exceeding 3 tonnes.

Non-slewing mobile cranes are mobile cranes incorporating a boom or jib that cannot be slewed. This includes an articulated mobile crane and a locomotive crane, but does not include vehicle tow trucks.

This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely operate a slewing mobile crane with a maximum rated capacity (MRC) up to 20 tonnes.

Slewing mobile cranes are mobiles crane incorporating a boom or jib that can be slewed, but does not include a front-end loader, a backhoe, an excavator or other earth moving equipment, when configured for crane operation.

This is course provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge to safely operate a vehicle loading crane with a Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) of 10 metre tonnes or more.

Vehicle loading cranes are crane mounted on vehicles for loading and unloading the vehicle.