Mobile Elevating Work Platform, Scissor – Work platforms
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 mobile elevated work platforms (MEWP). 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 scissor type mobile elevated platforms (MEWP) in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
• Suitable and safe area to operate and manoeuvre machine
• Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
• Suitable welfare facilities
• MEWP sicissor
• 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 MEWP scissor?
Scissor-type mobile elevated work platforms, commonly known as MEWPS Mobile Elevating Work Platform, have a vertically rising or elevating platform that allows persons to access areas at height. Some have an extending deck to provide further reach. MEWP scissors are commonly used in construction as well in maintenance activities, engineering etc.