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.
ATVs (Quad Bikes)
Basic
Experienced (3 years) – including implements and loads
Topics covered are:
- Use of manufacturer’s handbook
- Protective clothing
- Transmissions and Drives
- Controls and Instruments
- Daily Checks/Re-Fuelling
- Start/stop procedure
- Steering
- Emergency Stop
- Risk Assessment/Route Planning
- Failed Hill Climb techniques
- Ascent/Descent/Traversing
- Complex riding situations
- Limits of towing trailers/implements
- Loading capacities
- Causes of accidents/how to prevent them
- Daily Checks on all equipment
- Loading of racks/hitching up trailers
- Assessment of riding/hitching/loading.
Off-road (4 x 4s)
Professional off-highway driving
- Vehicle knowledge
- Emergency procedures, including jacking
- Pre-start checks and vehicle preparation
- Correct move-off and driving procedures
- Use of 4-wheel drive and other traction aids
- Vehicle positioning and route planning
- Driving in a variety of off-road situations
- Checks prior to returning to the road.
Recreational off-highway driving
- Principles of off-road driving
- Recognising safe environments for off-road vehicles
- Assessing ground conditions and route against own driving ability
- Safety checks and maintenance
- Driving in a variety of typical off-road conditions, including slopes, mud, water and obstacles
- The dangers of certain manoeuvres and why they should not be attempted.