Course on mobile platforms - operation and maintenance

This training allows you to obtain authorization to operate or maintain, among others: aerial platforms (aerial platforms), scissor lifts and other mobile platforms. Raising qualifications in this area significantly increases the chances on the labor market. Having qualifications for mobile platforms makes it easier to find a job in companies dealing with building maintenance, energy companies, construction and transport companies. Having such entitlements, you can also provide rental services for aerial work platforms (lifts). In turn, completing the maintenance course allows you to work in the service of mobile platforms. The course prepares you for the UDT and TDT examinations carried out by the Office of Technical Inspection, as well as by the Transport Technical Inspection.

Platform course - why is it worth it?

Benefits of being authorized to operate and maintain this type of equipment:

• Higher qualifications are a chance for a better job. Employees with specialist qualifications are much more often sought by employers and can count on a much higher salary.
• Wide scope - the rights for mobile platforms apply not only to the most popular devices, i.e. self-propelled platforms, but also to many other types of lifts.
• For employers: a greater number of qualified employees is a guarantee of timely execution of orders for clients. It also allows participation in tenders organized by local governments and other units, where it is often required to have employees with appropriate qualifications.
• Opportunity to start your own business: rental of aerial work platforms and carrying out work with this type of equipment is a service often sought by customers.
• Completing the course in the maintenance of booms and passing the UDT and TDT exam entitles you to perform periodic inspections, servicing the equipment, and assessing its technical condition. These are the skills desired on the labor market that allow you to find employment practically "immediately" or to provide services on your own.

Who is the course for?

UDT qualifications for mobile, stationary or suspended platforms are required for operators, installers, fitters, employees of construction companies or people dealing with large-format advertising.

What requirements must candidates meet?

• 18 years or older
• Education at least elementary
• Medical certificate

Types of service authorizations

Completing the training allows you to obtain the following qualifications granted by the Office of Technical Inspection:

The scope of the rights issued (valid from June 1, 2019) and their validity dates:

• Mobile access platforms: 5 years
• Stationary mobile platforms, hanging mobile platforms (entitles you to operate suspended and stationary mobile platforms): 10 years
• Mast climbing work platforms (entitles to operate mast and stationary mobile platforms): 10 years
• Platforms on railway vehicles: 10 years

The scope of the issued rights until June 1, 2019 - valid for 5 years from the date of entry into force of the new regulations (the Act on technical supervision):

• IP category permissions, includes mobile platforms:
  • passable low-speed, the so-called scissor lifts
  • transportable, so-called spiders attached to the car
  • self-propelled, vehicle-mounted - aerial platforms (lifts)
• Category II P permissions, includes mobile platforms:
  • hanging
  • masthead
  • stationary

Types of authorization for maintenance

The division according to the new rules and agreed training programs, effective from June 1, 2019.

• Stationary, hanging and mast mobile platforms: 5 years
• Mobile and loading mobile access platforms, including for passenger transport: 5 years
• Mobile platforms on railway vehicles: 5 years

What issues are covered in the course in terms of service?

• General news
• Stability of platforms
• Strength of platforms
• Safety devices
• Chassis and supporting structures
• Driving mechanisms of the supporting structure of the working platform
• Work platform
• Platform operating instructions
• Research and tests of mobile platforms
• Principles of operation of mobile platforms
• Technical inspection
• Practical

What topics are covered in the maintenance course?

Issues in the theoretical part:

• Types of close-range transport devices that are subject to technical inspection
• The procedure to be followed when taking technical devices under supervision
• Types of technical tests carried out by technical inspection inspectors along with the scope of activities performed during these tests
• Procedure for the operator and maintenance technician in the event of a dangerous damage or an accident related to the operation of a technical device
• Health and safety in the maintenance of equipment
• Assemblies and elements of maintenance of mobile platforms - mechanical part
• Assemblies and elements of maintenance of movable platforms - electrical part

Practical issues:

• Verification of the technical condition of the device
• Criteria used to check the degree of wear and correct operation of mechanisms
• Replacement of worn or damaged components
• Maintenance of individual units, components, safety devices, etc.
• Procedure in emergency states of the device
• Ways to check the correct operation of elements and safety devices, as well as their adjustment
• Activities performed when changing the assembly version of devices
• Activities and obligations resulting from the change of the place of use of the device, which requires disassembly and reassembly
• The most common operational defects - examples and methods of their removal

Forms of education: online and stationary

We conduct trainings for operators and maintenance technicians at the client's premises - throughout Poland, in SPA branches in most large cities with UDT branches: Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, and also in Silesia (Bielsko-Biała, Gliwice). If a larger number of people from a given city or region express interest in obtaining qualifications, instructors can go anywhere in Poland.

To make it easier for candidates for platform operators to gain qualifications, online courses have been launched. It is a convenient way to prepare for the UDT exam without having to travel to the place of training.

What does the online course look like?

1. Participants receive a login and password with which they log in to the course platform.
2. The lecturer transmits knowledge live, using various forms of knowledge transfer: lecture, asking questions to participants, discussion, quizzes.
3. Finally, the participants' knowledge is verified with a test.

In the case of the course for the operator of mobile platforms, it is required to supplement with stationary classes.

UDT exam and training

The center deals not only with teaching and transferring knowledge to students, but also with the organization of the UDT exam for mobile platforms. The price of the training includes the costs of organizing the exam: access to didactic and technical facilities and equipment, as well as full representation in the coordination of the process of checking qualifications by the Office. Thanks to such support, participants can be examined faster than if they applied to the UDT themselves. This translates into a high pass rate of exams - students are up to date with knowledge and do not have to remember it again.

The exam can be organized in two ways:

1. Training in operation or maintenance may be scheduled in such a time as to correspond to the first possible date set by the Office of Technical Inspection. The waiting time is usually around 30 days.
2. The training can be scheduled so that the examination is organised immediately after the training, on the next working day. This requires much advance planning - usually more than 30 days in advance. It may also involve higher costs (please contact us for details).

It should be remembered that the date of the exams is decided by the Office of Technical Inspection. Permissions may be granted in an accelerated manner, however, it must be determined individually by the Center, which contacts the Office in this matter. The center is not responsible for the results of the exams or for the participant's absence within the prescribed period.

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