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Course Overview

Master the process of selecting and applying cutting-edge tool tethering solutions to your existing tooling for safe work at height. This course aims to inspire and motivate those who work at height with tools — or who are responsible for those workers — to take action against the dangers of dropped objects, gain practical tethering skills and foster safety in the workplace.

Who Is It For?

This course is aimed at individuals, supervisors and managers who use tools at height. Every course is tailored to your unique working at height tool requirements, and trade. We also stock a large range of high-quality tool tethering solutions, all of which are CE approved and trusted by industry professionals!

Aftercare Access

Valid for 3 years

Recognised Certs & ID's

All Kit Provided

Tool tethering training course

01 / THEORY PHASE

Put an end to
dropped objects.

After covering statistics and legislation that help you understand why tethering is so important, you'll not only discover what testing methods to look for when buying tethers, but learn how to safely transport and store your tethered tooling. You'll also learn classifications of different tool types and the options available for tethering them, giving you the skills to select and apply the correct tethers to your own tools.

Worker practising how to tether a power drill during tool tether course

02 / practical phase​

Tether real tools.

The real benefit of this course is the full three hours you'll get to physically practice selecting and applying a wide range of tethers to different types of tooling. We'll also show you how to use the Leading Edge tethering roadmap to help you find a complete tethering solution.

Tool tethering trainee learning to tether a power tool.

03 / TETHERING EXPERTISE

Your passport to competence.

Correctly tethering a tool takes more than tying a piece of string around the handle. It's about fully understanding the risks, configuration and selection, equipment mechanics, usage and best practices. This course gives you the all the knowledge, awareness and practical skills to create a safe tool tethering solution.

Tool tethering course

04 / PROVEN SKILLS​

Get certified.
With a Formal Exam.

We believe your employees Tool Tethering skills should be proven just like any other Height Safety course. That's why every trainee must sit a multi-choice examination to demonstrate their competence to use tools safely at height.

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05 / COURSE EQUIPMENT

All kit provided.

We provide our own projector, screen, laptop, the latest tool safety products, and a bag full of tethering equipment and tools to deliver the practical and theory lessons. We just need somewhere to teach. So if you're booking a course on your site, don't forget to arrange a training room that can hold the appropriate number of people.

CERTIFICATION

Your license to work.

By completing this course you will be awarded with an industry recognised Leading Edge license card and certificate. The card is valid for 3 years and requires renewal after the expiry date stated at the time of issue.

Foundations

Course Objectives
Why we need height safety
Work At Height Statistics
Effects of Falling

Legislation

WAH Reguations
HSE Guidance
Codes of Practise
British Standards

Drop Prevention

Mitigating Controls
Pre-Work Conciderations

Product Testing

Static Drop Testing
Dynamic Drop Testing

Exam

An independently marked multi-choice paper to test your knowledge.

Tools At Height

Usage
Transportation
Storage

Handle Classification

Captive Holes
Captive Handles
Open-Ended Handles
Moulded Grips
Rotating Tools
Shapes Tools
Waisted Tools
Insulated Tools

Tethering Equipment: Configuration & Application

Tethers
Lanyards
Tool Bags
Tool Belts
Tool Holsters

Tethering Roadmap

Learn how to use the Leading Edge Tethering Roadmap to find a complete tethering solution for your tools.

Tethering Assessment

Practise selecting and fitting different tethering solutions onto a range of different tool types.

Tethering Q&A & Review

Ask questions and discuss any remaining tethering query you have with our tethering expert.

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