Conversion of CSCS 360 Excavator Card to QSCS Excavator Card

This conversion course from a CSCS card to QSCS card enables trained quarry plant operators who hold a current CSCS 360⁰ Excavator QQI certificate to gain recognition and provide an opportunity for participants to demonstrate their knowledge associated with 360⁰ Excavator quarry operations.

• Legislation and regulations
• Employer and employee responsibilities
• Safe working practices in quarries
• Machine components and functions
• Pre-use checks and basic maintenance
• Correct operating techniques
• Lifting Operations in quarries
• Hazards in a quarry
• Shut down and securing procedures

• Is in possession of a valid 360° Excavator Solas CSCS card and QQI certificate.
• Have at least six months full time experience (must be within the last two years)
• ID (Passport or Driving Licence)
• PPS Number
• Completed Candidate pack
• 1 x Passport Photo
• Must have the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (P.P.E)
• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or over

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Theory Examination

Half a day

On successful completion of 360° Excavator Assessment candidates will be issued with a Solas QSCS card. (Candidates still retain their CSCS card)

Maximum no. of participants for this course is 12.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.