SPA/MPQC Mineral Products Renewal

The MPQC Mineral Products Renewal course aims to provide updated information and areas of responsibility for health, safety and environmental concentrating on risks specifically found in the Mineral Extraction and Products Industry

• To understand the implications of hazard recognition/risk assessment and the effects on individuals and the employer.
• To demonstrate how individual behaviour can help reduce accidents.

On completion of the Mineral Products Renewal course delegates will have the knowledge to:

• Demonstrate their understanding of the subjects by successfully completing each module assessment paper.
• Appreciate how they personally can influence good standards within health safety & environment.
• Understand the value of risk assessment and have the knowledge to recognise when change to a generic assessment is required.
• Understand the common hazards associated with working in this sector.

Mineral Products Renewal course Modules include:

• Review of H&S legislation and responsibilities, including risk assessment.
• Safe place of work, safe behaviours.
• Common hazards including fire, asbestos, confined spaces and display screen equipment.
• Health issues including manual handling, noise, hazardous substances and stress.
• Danger areas, unprotected edges, quicksand, lagoons, blasting, bitumen and cement.
• Mobile plant, reversing vehicles, heavy mobile plant, crane operations and slinging.
• Access and work at height, scaffolds, mobile elevated work equipment, ladders and harnesses.
• Excavations and confined spaces, hazards and control measures, emergency procedures.
• Health risks, dusts, diseases, noise and vibration.
• Personal protective equipment.
• Environmental considerations, public perception, air, land and water pollution waste control.

Programme may be subject to change without prior notification

Successfully completing all assessment papers will result in a renewed safety passport being issued. The passport is valid for 3 years and can be refreshed by attending a one day course anytime during the 6 months before the expiry date

What is the Qualifications and Credits Framework (QCF)?

The QCF is not a qualification; it is a framework that contains many qualifications of all types. The framework is a new way of recognizing skills and qualifications. It does this by awarding credit for qualifications and units (small steps of learning). It enables people to gain qualifications at their own pace along flexible routes

Delegates must have an existing, valid MPQC passport to sit the renewal course

Prices shown exclude SPA / MPQC passport fees and VAT