PSAgA Initial Qualification (EQ).

Target Group

Entrepreneurs and users of personal fall protection equipment (PFPE), e.g. employees in manufacturing companies working in areas with a risk of falling.

Participation requirements:

• Minimum age: 18 years
• Physical fitness (e.g. G41)

Please contact us for current seminar dates!

Training Content

• Legal foundations and occupational safety regulations
• Types of fall protection
• Selecting the appropriate PFPE
• PFPE in mobile elevating work platforms
• Use in accordance with regulations
• Markings and how to interpret them
• The importance of the manufacturer’s instructions/user information
• Hazards caused by incorrect use
• Correctly putting on a full‑body harness
• Fall physics
• Ensuring sufficient clearance height below the user
• Suspension trauma
• Storage and care of PFPE
• Rescue systems and methods
• Equipment check before use
• Putting on and adjusting PFPE
• Using PFPE (depending on the application)
• Suspension tests, including demonstration and application of suspension‑relief techniques to prevent “suspension trauma”
• Appropriate rescue procedures
• Rescue exercise

Instructors

We conduct our PFPE seminars in cooperation with Funcke Sicherheitssysteme.