About this course
The Abrasive Wheels (Theory & Practical) course equips participants with both theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills to safely operate, inspect, and maintain abrasive wheels, ensuring compliance with UK safety regulations and reducing risks of workplace accidents
What you will learn
The theory sessions focus on:
- legal requirements, workplace hazards, and safe practices for abrasive wheels, including health and safety legislation such as: PUWER 1998, HASWA 1974, MHSWR 1999, Control of Vibration, Noise, and COSHH regulations
- Hazards of abrasive wheels: wheel burst, entrapment, flying debris, vibration, and dust inhalation, structure, marking, types, and safe storage of abrasive wheels, selection of correct wheels and machine compatibility.
- the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and guards
- Employer and employee responsibilities
Practical sessions provide hands-on experience under supervision to develop safe operational skills such as:
- Mounting and changing abrasive wheels safely
- Machine safety: machine safety checks, correct start-up and shutdown procedures, emergency stopping techniques and hazard awareness Dressing, truing, and balancing wheels on bench/pedestal grinders
- Operating equipment: angle grinders, chop saws, disc cutters, and other portable machinery if provided by the client 4 Practical exercises, which include cutting and grinding