Basic New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 Operative
This course is aimed at people who have worked on the highways, projects in the Gas, Water, Electrical, Telecoms industries or similar.
It will provide people with experience for working on the highways, upgrading their skills and knowledge to the standards required by the New Road & Street Works Act 1991.
The course will include:
- Interpretation of plans
- Identification of apparatus
- Implications of damage to apparatus
- Use of pipe and cable location equipment
- Setting out signs, cones, lamps and barriers in accordance with Department of Transport requirements
- Erecting of temporary traffic signals
- Excavation techniques
- Support to utilities’ apparatus
- Selection and storage of excavated materials for re-use
- Placing and compacting of back-fill and sub-base materials
- Laying and compacting of cold-lay bituminous materials
- Disposal of surplus materials
- Breaking up and removal of existing materials above formation layer
- Cleaning and preparation of formation layer
- Safe working practice
Our training methods are “hands on” practical and classroom tutorials.
The course will take 4 x 7½ hour days – 30 hours in total.
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