Loading shovel – Extracting
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 loading shovels. 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 wheeled loading shovels to extract loose materials in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
• Suitable and safe area to operate and manoeuvre machine
• Varying terrain and slopes
• Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
• Suitable welfare facilities
• Wheeled loading shovel
• 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 loading shovel?
A loading shovel is a vehicle attached with shovel designed to perform heavy-duty tasks in earthwork and construction operations. This shovel has specific capabilities to accomplish the loading tasks.