About Dickens Assessment and Training Services

This course is only available to QLD and NSW residents.

This qualification will appeal to anyone currently employed or wanting to be employed in the civil construction industry. Clients will obtain, confirm or further their skills within the construction industry.

Safework Australia encourages formal competency-based training and assessment for the operation of this type of equipment through registered training organisations. Formal training and assessment, together with currency of experience will go a long way in demonstrating the competency of the operator.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to operate excavator operations to lift carry and place materials.

In accordance with WHS laws in NSW, SafeWork NSW Licences are no longer issued. Employers (or controllers of a plant) must ensure that operators have received adequate information and training to minimise the health and safety risk.

This general induction training covers the mandatory work health and safety training required prior to undertaking construction work, or conduct work on a construction site. It includes a basic knowledge of requirements under WHS Act, the common hazards and risks likely to be encountered on construction sites and how these risks should be controlled.

This unit covers the operation of a gantry or overhead cranes in the resources and infrastructure industries. It includes planning and preparing, operating the crane and carrying out operator maintenance.

This unit covers the operation of a vehicle loading crane in the resources and infrastructure industries. It includes planning and preparing for crane operations, operating and maintaining the crane, carrying out operator maintenance and cleaning up.

Note: If the vehicle loading crane has a lifting capacity of 10 metre tonne or more, you must hold a valid National High Risk Work TLILIC0002 - Licence to operate a vehicle loading crane.

This course is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to operate elevating work platforms which are not classified as requiring a high-risk work (HRW) licence.

Participants may complete singular or multiple machine classes, according to the type of work they will be undertaking. Machine classes are: Vertical Lift (VL), Scissor Lift (SL), Boom Lift under 11 metres (BL), Trailer Mounted Boom (TL), and Truck Mounted Boom (TM).

This course aims to meet the training requirements of the WHS Regulation with regards to “Working in a Confined Space” and Australian Standards 2865-2009 Confined Spaces. Confined Spaces are potentially high risk workplaces, because their atmosphere can change quickly and without notice.

Confined Spaces may include tanks, silos, manholes, pump stations, dry wells and reservoirs.

This unit is performing high risk work & involves the skills and knowledge required to operate a forklift, including checking forklift condition, driving the forklift to fulfill operational requirements, monitoring site conditions and monitoring and maintaining forklift performance.

In accordance with WHS laws in NSW, SafeWork NSW Licences are no longer issued. Employers (or controllers of a plant) must ensure that operators have received adequate information and training to minimise the health and safety risk.

In accordance with WHS laws in NSW, SafeWork NSW Licences are no longer issued. Employers (or controllers of a plant) must ensure that operators have received adequate information and training to minimise the health and safety risk.

In accordance with WHS laws in NSW, SafeWork NSW Licences are no longer issued. Employers (or controllers of a plant) must ensure that operators have received adequate information and training to minimise the health and safety risk.

A telescopic handler – telehandler, otherwise known as a Manitou is a mobile lifting plant using a telescopic boom fitted with a lifting attachment. An Employer has a “duty of care” to provide their staff with a safe workplace.

This unit covers conducting telescopic materials handler operations in the resources and infrastructure industries. This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge and skills required to safely attend to lifting operations.

It is the responsibility of an employer to ensure that all persons operating an elevating work platform are competent to do so, and that safe systems of work are provided at all times in their use. This training outlines the competency required to safely and effectively operate an EWP.

This unit is based on the National Standard for Licensing Persons Performing High Risk Work and is a legal requirement for any person who operates a non-slewing mobile crane (greater than 3 tonnes capacity).

This unit specifies the outcomes required to operate a builder's hoist in which personnel, goods and/or materials may be hoisted, and which comprises a car, structure, machinery or other equipment associated with the hoist, and which may be a cantilever hoist, a tower hoist or a multiple winch operation. Included in this definition are situations where winches may be configured to operate as hoists for the transportation of personnel for licensing purposes.

This unit is based on the National Standard for Licensing Persons Performing High Risk Work and is a legal requirement for any person who operates a slewing mobile crane (up to 60 tonnes).

This licence entitles the holder to also operate non-slewing and vehicle loading cranes.

This unit is based on the National Standard for Licensing Persons Performing High Risk Work (HRW) and is a legal requirement for any person who directs the operators of mobile and tower cranes. It will provide the skills and knowledge required to direct the crane operator to safely sling and direct loads, and to maintain and care for dogging equipment.

This Unit includes loading and unloading goods and cargo, securing and protecting a load and completing all required documentation in accordance with relevant State or Territory roads and traffic authority regulations / permit requirements.

Upon completion of the training, learners will have a fundamental knowledge of how goods / cargo are loaded and unloaded in accordance with relevant mass, dimension and loading regulations and workplace procedures as per the current chain of responsibility legislation.

Our Load and unload goods/cargo course will provide students with a basic understanding of the safe loading obligations of their job role. For this reason, it is a beneficial course for Drivers, Loaders & packers, Freight handlers, Consignees- anyone who receives goods, and Loading managers.

This unit describes a participant’s skills and knowledge required to load and unload plant in the Resources and Infrastructure Industries. This unit is proper for those working in operational roles.

This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to secure cargo including preparing to secure cargo/containers, lashing and unlashing cargo, protecting cargo from weather, and packing and unpacking cargo. It may apply in cargo securing contexts in the stevedoring, transport, distribution and allied industries. Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements are applicable to this unit.

Many work operations are conducted above ground level or the workplace floor. Falling from such heights is a serious hazard and a major cause of workplace injury. Working at heights can become even more dangerous because of weather conditions, inadequate housekeeping and poorly designed and inadequately maintained equipment.

Those responsible for health and safety in the workplace, and those who work at heights, should be familiar with the design principles that can eliminate or control the hazardous elements of working at heights. They should also be familiar with the use of safety equipment.

Overhead powerline contact is one of the largest single causes of fatalities associated with mobile plant and equipment. Contact with overhead powerlines is a serious risk because any voltage that causes sufficient current to pass through the heart is potentially injurious or even fatal. There are legislative obligations on employers, self-employed persons and controllers of premises in regard to undertaking work in close proximity, or at an unsafe distance to overhead powerlines.

This unit specifies the outcomes required to operate a materials hoist being a builder's hoist by which only goods or materials and not personnel may be hoisted and where the car, bucket or platform is cantilevered from, and travels up and down externally to, a face of the support structure for licensing purposes.

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to operate concrete placing booms safely. It supports the work of concrete placement workers who are responsible for locating concrete placing booms at the workplace and for setting up and operating the boom to deliver concrete safely and accurately as required. The concrete placing boom includes a knuckle boom capable of power operated slewing and luffing to place concrete by way of pumping through a pipeline attached to, or forming part of, the boom of the plant.