Who Should Attend:
This module is designed to train persons who are already competent to undertake installation, maintenance and testing points and who are responsible for undertaking the installation, maintenance and testing of points and stretcher bars after the installation, maintenance and testing activities.
Objectives:
On successful completion of the course delegates will be able to describe:
• Engineering specifications associated with tubular stretcher bars.
• How to install tubular stretcher bars to the current standard.
• How maintenance adjustment, faulting, repair and testing, may affect the safe operation of the railway.
• How to ensure operational and personal safety is maintained during the work and how to avoid personal injury.
• How tubular stretcher bars are designed to function under normal operating conditions.
• The contribution of individual component parts to the overall operation of the stretcher.
• The terminology and methods used to identify parts of the stretcher system.
• What tools and gauges are required, to carry out the work and what equipment calibration is required.
• The maintenance authorisation procedures and limits of individual responsibility and authority.
• The equipment operating, care and control procedures applicable to tubular stretcher bars.
• How to take the equipment out of operational service and how to hand it back.
• Maintenance reporting documentation and control procedures