Working At Heights Course

A short online course for the people around work at height. Supervisors, adjacent trades, anyone holding an exclusion zone and anyone who might find a colleague suspended in a harness. It teaches recognition, the control order and the rescue rule. Working at heights awareness training suits a whole site because it needs no booking and no travel.

Yes. The working safely at heights course rests on Australian WHS law and the model Code of Practice on managing the risk of falls, and it names state regulators instead of generalising. New Zealand organisations run it unchanged, because gravity and suspension intolerance do not respect a border.

Usually in two halves that never meet. The climbers get sent to an accredited course and the paperwork is filed. Everyone else gets a toolbox talk and nothing recorded. Working at heights safety training for that second group is larger, stands underneath the work, and is what a regulator asks about after an incident.

No. Sentrient is not an RTO, this is not nationally recognised, and nothing in it authorises a climb. RIIWHS204E, Work safely at heights, is the unit most Australian providers deliver, producing a Statement of Attainment, which is the qualification employers mean when they ask. Scaffolding, rigging and boom-type elevating work platforms each need a high risk work licence as well.

Eliminate the need to work at height if you can, then work down the control order: a fall prevention device, then a work positioning system, then a fall arrest system last (SafeWork NSW, Working at heights). Construction work with a fall risk over two metres needs a site-specific safe work method statement. Training supports all of it and settles none of it.

Somebody on site, and they have to have practised. The model Code is blunt: a worker should not use a fall arrest system unless at least one other person present can rescue them, and the emergency procedures must be tested to confirm they work (Safe Work Australia, model Code of Practice). That second person is why this course exists.

Not formally. It stays on the national transcript. What expires is a principal contractor’s patience: most Australian sites will not let somebody onto a roof with training more than two years old, and that rule comes from industry recommendation and site policy rather than legislation. Check the site before you check the certificate.

Some registered training organisations do run a working at heights online refresher course and issue a Statement of Attainment for it, usually where the original training is under five years old. We are not one of them. Ours refreshes awareness across the workforce, which is a different job for a different group of people.

If the person climbs, yes, and book the working at heights refresher course with a registered training organisation that assesses the practical side. If the person stands underneath, directs the work or would be first to the casualty, this course is the one that was never bought for them in the first place.

Fifteen to thirty minutes. Short is deliberate: the content that saves a life here is a short chain of decisions, and a long course across four hundred people simply does not get finished. Progress saves between sittings.

It works as a working at heights course refresher, and as working at heights awareness training for people who never held the unit, repeated annually or whenever a site changes. It does not refresh, renew or revalidate the accredited unit, and the course states that on the first screen instead of burying it. Treat the two as separate lines in your training matrix.

For us, nothing formal. Working at heights refresher training online through Sentrient re-states the recognition, the control order and the rescue rule, and stamps a fresh completion date against the person. Renewing the accredited unit is a separate transaction with a registered training organisation, and we will say so every time you ask.

Yes. Online working at heights refresher training schedules itself annually, or fires when somebody transfers to a site where height work happens. Completions roll up to one report across every location, which is the part a classroom booking has never been able to do.

No. A working at heights refresher online course from a registered training organisation is a shorter path for people whose original training is recent enough to qualify. A working at heights refresher online of awareness content, which is what we provide, assumes nothing about what the learner held before and authorises nothing after.

Enough to recognise and report, not enough to rig. The working at heights safety course covers what a harness, lanyard and anchor are for, why a fall arrest system is the last choice rather than the first, and why an anchor nobody can produce paperwork for is a reason to stop. Equipment handling is not something a working at heights online course can assess.

A written, site-specific statement of how high risk construction work will be done safely, prepared before the work starts and available to everyone on site. Construction work with a fall risk over two metres is high risk construction work. The course teaches people to read one, and to treat its absence as a reason to stop.

Yours wins, every time. We build the course to defer to site instruction, and we can end it on your own rescue plan, your permit form and the name of the person to call. A learner should finish holding your rule in mind, not ours.

Yes. Keep it in Sentrient, serve it from the platform your people already open through our learning management system, or let your HRIS launch it the day somebody starts or changes site. One completion record either way.

The person, the date, the device, and which version of the course they were shown. After a fall the first thing asked for is what that worker had been told and when, and an answer that arrives as a dated report is worth a great deal more than one that arrives as a recollection.

It does. Somebody notices an unguarded penetration, says so, and the report travels into your risk management system or down your incident reporting training path. Training that produces no report has produced nothing.

The confined space awareness training course, because the rescue rule is the same argument in a different shape. The hazard identification and risk assessment course for the method. The contractor safety training course for the crews who bring their own scaffold.

Yes. Working at heights training online runs on a phone or tablet in a site shed and needs no classroom booking. Crews commonly do it on an induction morning, before anyone goes near an edge, which is the point at which it can still change a decision.

Learner records live on Australian infrastructure, governed by the Australian Privacy Principles (OAIC, Australian Privacy Principles). Visibility is scoped, so a supervisor sees their own team and nothing beyond it. The list is never sold or rented, and your people hear from you rather than from us.

Of course. Ask for a demo and we will walk the actual screens with you, show the reporting, and follow one completion into a single person’s record. Bring whoever signs off height work on your sites and let them pull it apart.