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Return to shopMobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWP Booms) are vital for high-level access in construction, steel erection, and facilities maintenance. However, operating a boom lift carries extreme risks, including lateral tip-overs, falls from height, and catastrophic crushing incidents against overhead structures. The NPORS MEWP Boom (N108) course ensures your operatives are not just capable of driving the machine, but are fully compliant lifting professionals. It guarantees they can safely deploy outriggers.
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Description
Course Overview
This rapid, highly intensive 1-day training program is an absolute must for commercial contractors, steel erectors, cladding firms, and maintenance teams working at height.
Delivered either at our 84-acre Huddersfield training facility or directly on your active site, this course bridges the gap between basic machine operation and advanced high-level safety. Candidates will master the unique steering and hydraulic lift controls of the MEWP boom. The training heavily emphasizes the correct use of safety harnesses, navigating chicanes, understanding secondary guarding devices, and adhering strictly to CPA guidance and the Work at Height Regulations.
What You Will Learn
Upon successful completion, candidates will be fully competent in:
Legislation & Risk Assessment: Understanding legal obligations under PUWER, LOLER, the Work at Height Regulations, and the critical HSE GS6 guidelines for working near overhead power lines.
Pre-Operational Precision: Conducting thorough daily checks on fluid levels, secondary guarding devices, tilt alarms, limit switches, and mandatory safety harnesses.
Emergency Systems: Fully understanding and demonstrating the machine's emergency lowering devices and rescue plans.
Manoeuvring & Stability: Safely traveling on level ground, rough terrain, and inclines, and safely deploying stabiliser legs or ground support pads where applicable.
High-Level Access: Operating hydraulic lift controls smoothly to elevate the platform to a minimum of 75% of the machine's maximum lifting height and outreach, while constantly monitoring the safe working load and wind speed limits.
End of Shift: Executing safe parking, fully retracting the boom, isolating the controls, and completing battery charging or refuelling procedures.
Course Durations & Eligibility
Novice Course Duration: 1 Day.
Class Ratio (Novice): Maximum 4 Learners : 1 Instructor : 1 Machine.
Experienced Worker Tests (EWT): A 1-day assessment is available for up to 6 experienced operators who require formal NPORS ticket renewal (subject to 3+3 dispensation rules).
Testing & Certification
Candidates must pass an NPORS theoretical examination (requiring an 80% pass mark) and a rigorous practical assessment. The practical test requires candidates to correctly harness up, navigate a chicane forward and reverse, and safely elevate to target points representing at least 75% of the machine's maximum capability.
Upon successful completion, candidates will receive an NPORS Operator Card and certificate endorsing them for MEWP Boom (N108).