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: gloves, water/wind proof jacket and pants, snow boots, hat, backpack helmet and goggles if they have them)
Lunch, Snack and liquids (no squishy or breakable items)

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
Salome
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/Verbal test
Worksafe recognized certification based on proficiency