Tractor driving
Complete beginner
Basic tractor driving (agricultural and compacts)
- Personal safety
- Personal protective equipment
- Mounting and dismounting
- Machine knowledge
- Use of manufacturer's handbook
- Safe stop procedure
- Observation
- All-round checks
- Direction of travel
- General safety
- Pre-start checks
- Controls and instrumentation
- Use of handbrake
- Move-off procedure
- Use of gears and speed
- Manoeuvring
- Hitching
- Use of fixed attachments (if applicable)
- Correct procedure using the pick-up hitch
- Correct procedure using the drawbar
- 3-point linkage and hydraulics
- Safety
- PTO operation (not for 13-16 year-olds)
- Correct fitting procedures
- Guarding
- Knowledge
- Travelling
- Manoeuvring with trailed implements
- Manoeuvring with mounted implements
- General
- Safety
- Security of loads
- Legislation
Tractors on slopes
As above, plus:
- Slope assessment
- Grip test
- Evaluation of angle of slope
- Evaluation of machine in use
- Safety
Front end loader
- Attaching a mounted front-end loader
- Attaching a bucket, muck fork, pallet forks, etc. to the loader (as appropriate)
- Using the loader correctly and organising working area for efficient operations
- Leaving unattached implements in a safe state
Tractor-mounted hedge trimmer
Lift trucks - Industrial Masted, Rough Terrain masted / telescopic
Complete beginner
Novices (some experience)
Experienced operators
Corrective training and reassessment
Topics covered are:
- Starting and stopping
- Visual checks and maintenance
- Mounting and dismounting
- Controls and instruments
- Start and move off
- Safe stopping and parking
- Operating
- Stability
- Load centres
- Rating and derating
- General driving
- Use of controls and instruments
- All-round observation
- Acceleration and braking
- Positioning, turning and straightening
- Rear end swing
- Hydraulic controls
- Use of handbrake
- Use of horn
- Ramps and hills
- Pallet work
- Positioning truck
- Use of lift and tilt boom
- Positioning fork
- Use of controls and instruments
- Use of handbrake
- Driving with pallet
- Stacking and destacking
- Loading and checking vehicles
- Side shift and swing in
- Undercutting
- Bulk materials
- Changing attachments
- Stability and positioning
- Use of horn
- Use of lift and tilt boom
- Loading high-sided vehicles
- Use of traction aids for driving on rough terrain
- Legal requirements.