Agricultural tractor – Transporting loads
Awarding Body:
SQATraining course type:
• Level 2 Certificate in Plant Operations (Construction) • Work-place on-site assessmentNovice training course duration:
• Up to 1 year to complete all NVQ unitsCard options:
• 5-year NPORS CSCS competent operator blue card • 5-year CPCS CSCS competent operator blue cardMinimum age:
16Restrictions:
• Workplace experience using forward tipping dumpers • 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 tractors with towed equipment for non-agricultural activities in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
• Suitable and safe area to operate and manoeuvre machine
• Trailed equipment
• Varying terrain and slopes
• Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
• Suitable welfare facilities
• Tractor and attachments
• 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 an agricultural tractor?
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised.