PPE - Working at Height Dingwall 15th November 2025. Delivery by AquaTerra.

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm UTC+00:00

Dundonnell MRT base | Inverness

Scottish Mountain Rescue
Publisher/HostScottish Mountain Rescue
PPE - Working at Height Dingwall 15th November 2025. Delivery by AquaTerra.
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Control of working at height equipment to regulatory requirements.
About this Event

Course Overview:

This course is designed to introduce candidates who are actively involved in the control of working at height equipment to the requirements of the appropriate regulations.

Course Objectives:

A mixture of theory and practical work. Candidates will be assessed during the course and will complete a written test.

Course Elements: Legislation and Regulations, Equipment and Systems Identification, Inspection Regimes and Requirements, Equipment Inspection, Certification Requirements, Defective Equipment, Equipment Storage.

Equipment Covered:

Helmets

Ropes

Harnesses

Connectors

Slings

Ascenders/Descenders

Belay devices inc. ID, Gri-gri & Grillon

Energy absorbing devices

Course Duration: 1 Day

Course Criteria: The Candidate must:

• attend the entire course

• adhere to course content and demonstrate the required practical application techniques

Certificates awarded after successful completion of the course will be valid for a three year period after which re?certification must take place.

** Please bring your current PPE kit with you to the course as there will be an afternoon session of practical application.




The course:

Full details of the course will be sent out in advance of the course running. Coffee/tea wil be provided but lunch will not be so please bring this with you.



THE SMALL PRINT!

Please speak to your Training Officer before booking this course to ensure it is relevant.

We will open this course up to 2 members per team initially. After a couple of weeks of the course being bookable, if there are still spaces available, we will open the course up.

Police Scotland / RAF mountain rescue attendees:

Please contact the SMR Office on 01479 861370 before booking onto the course.

Cancellation Policy:

SMR reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of £100 if failure to turn up to this course or a cancellation too late in which we cannot fill your space. This fee allows us to offset any costs which we will be incurred as a result of late cancellation. SMR Office will invoice directly to your Mountain Rescue team.

If you have any questions about this course, please email [email protected]


Privacy Notice

Other than trainer(s) and any accommodation provider for this course, Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) will not disclose your information to any company or person, except to help prevent fraud, or if required to do so by law. SMR believe that using your data in this manner is a legitimate interest.

You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to [email protected] clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.

SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.

Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.

We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.

In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.

For further information on Scottish Mountain Rescues' Privacy information please see http://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/privacy/


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Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) represents 25 Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs) made up of highly trained volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to emergencies and carry out a specialist search and rescue service in the mountains and remote communities in Scotland to keep people safe and help people if and when they get into difficulty.

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