Course Sample

Industrial Safe Operator Course outline

Two days of intensive hands-on training. Making Safety a top priority.

Students need to provide:

• Safety Gear: snell approved helmet, goggles, gloves, water/wind proof jacket and pants, snow boots, hat, backpack
• Snowmobile
• Lunch, Snack and liquids

Day 1

• Training pkg
• Recommended survival gear
• Safe transport and securing of snowmobiles
• Local snowmobile laws and regulations (BC)
• Preventing the most common injures
• Familiarization with snowmobile
• Controls and safety equipment
• Pre ride inspection
• Basic maintence of both 2 and 4 cycle engines
• Introduction to safe riding practices, riding positions and techniques
• Range signals and rules
• Recognizing dangers and avoiding them
• Start warm-up and stopping snowmobile, including emergency shutdown
• Starting out moving forward and backward
• Braking and emergency braking
• Turns and figure eights
• Salom
• Obstacles
• U turns
• Riding up over and down hills
• Trail ride signals and proper trail etiquette

Day 2

• Review of Day 1 skills
• Side hilling safely
• On trail trouble shooting and repairs
• Survival strategies
• Avalanche awareness/ reading the terrain
• Trail ride to practice skill learned in the controlled riding range.
• Written test
• Worksafe recognized based on proficiency