360° Excavator – Extracting and Excavating
Awarding Body:
SQATraining course type:
Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Plant Operations (Construction). Work-place on-site assessmentNovice training course duration:
Up to 1 year to complete all unitsCard options:
5-year NPORS CSCS competent operator blue card. 5-year CPCS CSCS competent operator blue cardMinimum age:
16Restrictions:
Workplace experience using 360° excavators. CITB test for operatives with in 24 monthsInstructor:
Bertie Tupper & Tuppco assessors
What’s involved in the assessment?
The candidate will be assessed on NVQ units relating to health and safety and machinery operation by means of:
- Observation
- Questions
- Demonstrations
- Professional discussion
- Witness testimonies
Assessment criteria
Mandatory core NVQ units
- Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace
- Preparing and operating 360° excavators to extract ground, face and/or loose materials in the workplace
- Preparing and operating 360° excavators to excavate ground in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
- Suitable and safe area to dig trenches and backfill
- Varying terrain and slopes
- Bulk material to load vehicle
- Vehicle or hopper to load (dumper, trailer)
- Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
- Suitable welfare facilities
- 360° Excavator with digging and grading buckets
- Operators’ manual
- Risk assessment completed
PPE Requirements
- Suitable head protection
- Suitable eye protection
- Suitable work clothes including wet weather
- Gloves
- Suitable work boots including steel toe protection
- High Viz
On-site NVQ assessments delivered
Southwest – Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Somerset, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Southeast – Oxfordshire, Kent, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex
Midlands – Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire
East Anglia – Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke, Bath, Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cirencester, Cheltenham, Coventry, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hungerford, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Northampton, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Reading, Salisbury, Southampton, Stroud, Swindon, Taunton, Warwick, Winchester, Witney, Worcester, Yeovil
What is a 360° Excavator?
The 360°degree excavator digger is a powerful piece of machinery used to excavate and move large objects in a construction environment. The 360°degree range of movement makes excavators ideally suited for different types and stages of work in the industry and it is rare to see a building site without one.