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New Territory Training is proud to offer training in the unit of competency FWPCOT2273 – Trim and cut felled trees AND FWPCOT2254 Maintain chainsaws as nationally recognised training.
This course provides learners with the skills and knowledge required to safely trim and cut felled trees.
Learners will understand how to conduct a pre-use check, learn about safety aspects required in order to trim and cut felled trees. The training will include sufficient time to allow learners to practice their trimming and cutting skills prior to their assessment.
This course is aimed for people in the construction, parks ranger, horticultural, agriculture, arboriculture and mining industries This course is essential for people who are required to trim and cut felled trees as part of their duties within the workplace.
Delivery of this course will be trainer led and delivered over two days of face-to-face training in a classroom setting combined with skills practice and assessment in your workplace.
The assessment in support of the unit of competency requires the learner to complete a written knowledge assessment and then demonstrate their applied knowledge and skills during a practical assessment and observed by the assessor.
The learner must answer all the written knowledge questions correctly. There is the opportunity for this knowledge assessment to be conducted verbally if the learner requires this level of support.
The practical assessment is conducted under controlled conditions in your workplace. The learner will be briefed on the assessment which will involve carrying out pre-and post-start-up checks, using the chainsaw to trim and cut felled trees whilst performing a range of cuts, working with chainsaws and maintaining them while also monitoring workplace hazards and communicating with others in the workplace.
Elective Units
On successfully completing the training and assessment you will be issued a Statement of Attainment issuing you the unit of competency: FWPCOT2273 Trim and cut felled trees and FWPCOT2254 Maintain chainsaws.
This unit of competence is nationally recognised and provides individuals with a valuable outcome that is recognised throughout Australia.
Please contact us for scheduled course dates.
The course is delivered over two days. Training is delivered at your workplace.
Learner training is supported through the provision of quality learning materials and resources.
Learners should attend the course in comfortable appropriate work clothing with steel capped boots. All equipment and consumables are supplied by your workplace as part of the course.
There are no pre-requisites for this course identified within the industry training package.
New Territory Training do require learners to meet the following local entry requirements:
Learners must be aged 18 years or older
Photo Identification is required to be sighted prior to course commencement
Language, literacy and numeracy skills required to interpret work instructions, equipment operating instructions and to be involved in a hazard / risk assessment and record work outcomes
Learners must be dressed in their normal work clothing and be wearing steel capped boots
Learners must be alert and physically capable of general industry tasks
Learners are to be existing workers and have completed their local employer workplace safety induction
Information about fees and charges is provided in the Schedule of Fees and Charges which will have been included in your pre-enrolment information package.
For remote areas, please contact us for the price.
Please refer to the Schedule of Fees and Charges as it contains important information about related charges and our refund policy.
This course is aimed for people in the construction, parks ranger, horticultural, agriculture, arboriculture and mining industries This course is essential for people who are required to trim and cut felled trees as part of their duties within the workplace.
A learner’s position on the course will only be confirmed upon a completed enrolment form and the payment of your basic course fee.
Numbers are limited, so confirmed enrolments will only be able to attend on the day of training.
New Territory Training is responsible under the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 for the quality of the training and assessment being delivered in this course and for the issuance of all AQF certificates.
Please refer to the Student Handbook for further information on all student rights and obligations.
This document must be read in conjunction with the Learner Handbook, Schedule of Fees & Charges and USI Fact Sheet.