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By Editor in Training on 5th Mar 2008 21:00

Many Greenkeepers regularly use tracked excavators in the course of their work, but relatively few Greenkeepers have had any formal training and assessment.
Make sure your staff are up to date with an HSE accredited qualification to prove competency.
Mr. Joe Lewis - accredited in-house trainer of RGL Plant Services offers this one-day course aimed specifically at greenkeepers and the golf course operation.

Intended for operators with a "level of competence" ie can use a digger - Joe will brief, instruct, improve operating skills, and assess competence.

At the end of the course, the successful candidates will receive an HSE accredited photo-licence, valid for 5 years, to operate any excavator likely to be used on the golf course.

Dates are: 26th or 27th March at Woodlands Golf Club, Bristol.

Costs are £100 per head with no VAT. Includes full documentation and a snack lunch. Cheques to BIGGA - SW Section.

Please sign below, or email as soon as possible to paulw@mgcnew.co.uk or give me a call on 07768 394593 for any further details. Return the form with a cheque to secure a place.

Name Golf Club Desired venue & date Signature
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There are 2 comments on this article

8 Mar 2008 by ticky21

this editorial is slightly misleading, you are saying this guy offers a training course that can result in an accredited HSE licence to operate any excavator likely to be used on a golf course...this is inaccurate due to the fact that you cannot do a training course on a 3.5 ton machine and then (as you imply ) jump onto a 60 ton machine...i know this because we had to do courses upto certain size machines..so you can operate upto 3.5 ton, then 7.5 ton and so on..also they differentiate between tracked 360 machines and wheeled 180 machines, (like JCB 3CX)...the courses we did were overseen by..CITB...(construction industry training board)...

Ticky supports British farmers...!!

10 Mar 2008 by minch

From Paul Worster, Golf Courses Manager, Minchinhampton.

Thanks for that Ticky - quite correct - you can't use this training to drive a 60 tonne machine - even if it fitted through the main entrance onto your golf course!!

We are not offering CITB - that is clearly a completely different animal - costing well in excess of £500 per person on a five day course.

This is an in-house licence, recognised by the HSE, valid for up to 10 tonne machines, and is intended to apply to the "casual user" - ie not for a guy who drives a range of different excavators on building sites etc for his sole living, but for a guy who drives one occasionally, in the course of his work.

So many of us do that on golf courses, yet very few of us have had any kind of formal safety training. The BIGGA South West Section are setting out to change that.
If someone then wanted to go on to CITB - that could also be arranged, but arguably is hardly necessary for the golf course situation.

There are three places left for the 27th March - first come first served.

Regards - Paul Worster.

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