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Short Courses

Short courses enrich your skillset and can provide specialised skills for your industry.

We offer specialised industry short courses in Automotive, Business and WHS, Construction, Carpentry and Joinery, Cookery and Hospitality, Electrotechology, Engineering and Plumbing.

Our trainers are experts in their respective fields and equip you with industry knowledge to help you improve your working capabilities.

If you’re ready to get upskilled and expand your knowledge, get in touch today to find out how.

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Conduct Roller Operations

Acquire real-world skills in roller operations that translate across a range of practical industries.

This course will teach you:
Plan and prepare roller operations
Operate roller in line with workplace requirements
Preparation for relocating the roller
Conducting household activities

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Basic Open Cabler Registration Skill Set

The Basic Open Cabler Registration Skill Set is for new or existing workers in the telecommunications industry who wish to be employed as open registered cablers (Telecommunication Technician) in accordance with ACMA requirements.

Conduct Civil Construction Skid Steer Loader Operations

Further your knowledge in the practical operations surrounding skid steer loaders and the safe practice accompanying them.

This course will teach you:

Plan and prepare for skid steer loader operations
Operate skid steer loader in line with established requirements
Load, carry and place materials to complete work activity
Select, remove, fit and use attachments for a skid steer loader
Prepare to relocate the skid steer loader
Conduct housekeeping activities

Conduct Civil Construction Excavator Operations

This course covers how to:

  • Plan and prepare for excavator operations
  • Operate excavator in line with established requirements
  • Lift, carry and place materials to complete work activity
  • Select, remove, fit and use attachments for an excavator
  • Prepare to relocate the excavator
  • Conduct housekeeping activities.
Licence to Erect, Alter and Dismantle Scaffolding Basic Level

The Basic Scaffolding course provides students with the skills and knowledge necessary to safely erect, alter and dismantle scaffolding in various working environments. The basic level of erecting, altering and dismantling scaffolding are the specific requirements of this course, consisting of scaffolding work connected with the operation or use of cantilevered materials hoists with a maximum working load of 500kg, modular or pre-fabricated scaffolds, ropes, and gin wheels, safety nets and static lines, and bracket scaffolds (tank and formwork).

The course requires students to have the ability to plan a job, select and inspect equipment, set up a task and to erect and dismantle scaffold and scaffold equipment. The following aspects are taught through written and practical teachings:

Comply with OHS licensing, legislation and local government regulations
Hazards and risks associated with all aspects of basic scaffolding
Knowledge of the various soil types and ground conditions necessary for setting up plant and equipment.
Work method statements, job safety analyses and other appropriate documentation regarding the site.
 Completion of handover certificates
Identifying appropriate communication methods within the workplace

The successful student will have the knowledge and ability to conduct the following;

Conduct before and after operational checks of basic scaffolding and tagging any scaffolding equipment that has been damaged
Set up fall arrest systems in order to work safely at heights
Application of risk assessments and hazard control strategies
Ability to safely use bracket scaffolds, gin wheels, cantilever hoists, safety net, and static lines
Knowledge of mathematical procedures required to measure and estimate loads
 Use effective communication with supervisors, managers and other scaffolders within the workplace
Interpret the manufacturer’s specifications in order to safely erect and dismantle scaffolding

Health and Safety Representative

This non-accredited training is approved by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland for delivery by ATTC for WHS Representatives through the 5 day training program.

This course will teach you:

Issue provisional improvement notices (PIN)

Consultation with all stakeholders in the workplace

Assist with management of hazards and risks in the workplace

On successful completion of the course participants will receive a Statement of Attendance.

Conduct Telescopic Materials Handler Operations

This course is aimed at providing the necessary skills and knowledge to operate a telescopic materials handler (telehandler) safely and efficiently. The course is a mixture of in class theory, practical demonstration and assessment covering all aspect of operation including legislation; hazards and risk control; planning; pre-use inspections; load charts; load characteristics; attachments; safe operation; transport; reporting procedures; shut down and post operation checks.

Licence to operate a slewing mobile crane (up to 60 tonnes)

This course or unit of competency often referred to in industries as a C6 crane ticket, includes the theoretical and practical components to meet the skills and knowledge required to be able to safely operate a slewing mobile crane with a Maximum Rated Capacity (MRC) up to 60 tonnes for the high-risk work licence class C6.

Participants will gain the following skills and knowledge:

  • Plan for the safe and effective operation of a slewing mobile crane (up to 60 tonne capacity)
  • Identify and report damage or defects
  • Conduct routine pre and post operational crane checks
  • Correctly set up the crane
  • Conduct test lifts and transfer loads
  • Use controls, outriggers and safety equipment
  • Move loads using best mobile practice
  • Communicate effectively with dogman / rigger
  • Load calculations and movement
Licence to perform dogging

This course will give you the necessary skills and knowledge to undertake the duties of a dogman. You will learn slinging techniques, including selection and inspection of lifting gear and equipment, directing crane operations in the movement of a load, risk management processes relating to lifting operations, communication and crane characteristics and types.

To find out more about requirements for applying for, or renewing a HRW licence (Dogger), please visit the WorkSafe Queensland website at Dogger – DG | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au

Shift materials safely using manual handling methods

Learn the relevant skills that are applicable to manual handling and safe load handling in line with work and occupational health and safety regulations.

You will learn how to:

  • assess relevant risks associated with relocating loads
  • plan load relocations
  • relocating loads.
Conduct In-Service Safety Testing of Electrical Cord Connected Equipment and Cord Assemblies (Test & Tag)

All electrical equipment is required to be tested and tagged, with testing intervals varying across industries. As an example, if you work in the Construction, Mining or Demolition industries, test and tag needs to be completed every three months. Take the hassle out of outsourcing and stay compliant by taking this course and doing it yourself!

This course will teach you:

  • To identify visual faults
  • Personal safety
  • Basic electrical testing concepts
  • Electrical equipment and cord assemblies testing
  • Testing and tagging documentation requirements
Provide First Aid

Learn first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills to prepare you for emergency situations in the community and at a workplace through ATTS’s First Aid course.

You will learn how to:

  • manage unconscious breathing and non-breathing adults
  • manage unconscious non-breathing infants
  • recognise the signs and symptoms of common injuries and illness and provide appropriate first aid treatment, and
  • provide an accurate report of first aid incidents.

The course is a blended delivery of online and face to face learning and assessment activities.

A First Aid certificate will be valid in the workplace for three years. The CPR component is valid for 12 months.

Licence to operate a forklift truck

Operation of a Forklift requires you to hold a High Risk Work (HRW) licence , a mandatory requirement in Australia. This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to safely operate equipment to prepare you to obtain a forklift truck HRW licence.

You will learn how to:

  • plan and prepare for forklift work
  • operate a forklift truck to perform work, and
  • pack up and shutdown procedures.

 

To find out more about requirements for applying for, or renewing a HRW licence (forklift), please visit the WorkSafe Queensland website at Forklift truck | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au

Enter and Work in Confined Spaces

This course prepares you for working in a confined space across a variety of industries including construction, resources, farming, trades and more.

This course teaches:

  • Identifying confined spaces
  • Practical entry and exit into and from a confined space
  • Identifying and assessing hazards and risks when working in a confined space
  • To plan and prepare for entering and working in confined spaces
  • To complete a record and/or report of work completed whilst in a confined space
  • To interpret Australian Standards and relevant legislation
  • To write work plans and risk assessments
  • To work to a confined space permit
  • To work according to site policy and procedures
  • Lockout and tag out methods of isolation
  • Safety and emergency procedures
Licence to operate a boom-type elevating work platform (boom length 11 metres or more)

This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to safely operate a boom-type elevating work platform (EWP) where the boom length is 11m or more. You will learn how to:

  • plan and prepare for EWP work
  • operate an EWP to perform work, and
  • pack up and shutdown procedures.

To find out more about requirements for applying for, or renewing a Work Platform (WP) High Risk Work (HRW) licence, please visit the WorkSafe Queensland website at Boom type elevating work platform – WP | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au

Operate Elevating Work Platform

This course is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to operate elevating work platforms which are not classified as requiring a high risk work (HRW) licence. If you need to operate boom lifts that have a capacity beyond 11m, please see our EWP High Risk licence course.

The unit covers the operation of a range of elevating work platforms under 11m and will provide participants with skills and knowledge to operate EWPs that are transferrable to any EWP under 11m.

Apply risk management processes

Learn real world skills across risk management processes for various industries.

This course teaches you to:

  • Plan and prepare for risk management
  • Assess and identify unacceptable risk
  • Review risk management documentation
  • Identify and recommend controls
  • Contribute to the implementation of controls
Assist with managing WHS implications of return to work

Establish the essential skills required to build and contribute to a valuable business environment.

This unit provides education around the performance, skills and knowledge required to assist with the management of workers’ compensation claims, rehabilitation and return-to-work programs.

Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Learn skills to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during emergency situations in the community and at a workplace through ACCT’s First Aid course.

You will learn techniques to manage the airway for:

  • unconscious breathing and non-breathing adults
  • unconscious non-breathing infants

and how to:

  • use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and
  • provide an accurate report of first aid incidents.

The course is a blended delivery of online and face to face learning and assessment activities.

A CPR certificate will be valid in the workplace for 12 months.

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Civil Construction – Trade Ready Program

Course Description

ATTC  is offering the opportunity to take the first step in your Civil Construction career by completing this Trade Ready Program in Townsville.

Licence to erect, alter and dismantle scaffolding basic level

Course Description

Upon successful completion of the Basic Scaffolding course, licence holders will be able to work in the civil, resource or general construction industries where scaffolding work is being undertaken

Gas Test Atmospheres

This Gas Test Atmospheres training course is for individuals who may be required to carry out gas testing of an atmosphere prior to entering a specific area or workspace. This can include work environments that are hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, or workplace atmospheres which may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces.

The course covers the skills and knowledge required to test the working atmosphere using electronic test apparatus to find out if it is safe for the proposed work, interpret readings and take actions based on the interpretation.

Areas that may need to be atmospherically tested can include:

  • Confined Spaces
  • Enclosed and partially enclosed spaces
  • Hot works
  • Storage tanks, silos, pits, pipes, shafts and ducts
  • Testing as part of issuing a work permit
  • Monitoring as part of working under a permit
  • Open areas

 

Students will learn:

  • Legislative framework for gas detection
  • Determining when is gas testing required
  • Gas testing permits to work and hot work requirements
  • Supervisor responsibilities
  • Risk assessments and the need to consider atmospheric monitoring requirements during the risk assessment
  • Confined space permit overview
  • Air densities of common gases
  • Oxygen deficiency, oxygen enrichment, lower explosive levels, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide, methane and other gases
  • Exposure limits: TWAs, STELs, IDLHs etc
  • Gas testing log sheets
  • Gas detector maintenance
  • Gas detector bump testing and calibration requirements
  • Gas detector records
Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control (ACDC)

In Queensland an Agricultural Distribution Control / Commercial Operators Licence is required for those who ground spray herbicides with a powered machine as part of a job on land they don’t own or occupy. This training course includes the theoretical and practical components of the competencies chosen by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries to obtain the skills and knowledge required to apply and hold an ACDC Licence.

You will learn legislation and licencing, labels, safety data sheets (SDS), chemical transport, storage, disposal, record keeping and spill control, handling, mixing and applying chemicals, personal protective equipment, equipment and calibration.

Introduction to Word: Basic

This is a non-accredited introductory Microsoft Word course.

This course will teach you the essential skills required to:

  • Create documents
  • Proofread documents
  • Format pages
Introduction to Excel: Basic

This is a non-accredited introductory Microsoft Excel course.

This course will teach you the essential skills required to:

  • Getting to know Excel
  • Creating a new workbook
  • Working with an existing workbook
  • Formatting
  • Basic calculations
Perform rescue from a live LV panel

This course provides you with the skills and knowledge to manage casualties in an emergency low voltage panel situation until emergency help arrives.

This training courses teaches:

  • Procedures to assess and manage an emergency situation with an unconscious casualty and perform CPR
  • Electrical safety information
  • Carry out a risk assessment of an electrically hazardous situation
  • Correct use an maintenance of the low voltage rescue kit
  • Identify and label the isolation point
  • Perform low voltage rescue procedures without harm to self or others
  • Handover procedures
Operate & maintain a 4WD vehicle

This nationally certified, practical course offers participants real-world, applicable skills in operation and maintenance of 4WD vehicles.

This course will teach you:

  • Problem solving skills for operation and maintenance of a four wheel drive vehicle
  • Operating 4×4 vehicles within specifications and limitations
  • Driving techniques and handling characteristics of four-wheel drives in different terrain
  • Differences between optional 4WD and constant 4WD vehicles and their impacts on vehicle operation and capability
  • 4×4 tyre management principles
  • Handover procedures
  • Hazards associated with 4WD vehicle recovery
  • 4WD area restrictions
Conduct Civil Construction Wheeled Front End Loader Operations

Strengthen your skills and knowledge to operate a wheeled front end loader, applicable in multiple industries.

This course will teach you:

  • Plan and prepare for wheeled front end loader operations
  • Operate front end loader in line with established requirements
  • Attach, secure, lift, carry and place materials to complete work activities
  • Prepare to relocate the front end loader
  • Conduct housekeeping activities
Establish legal and risk management requirements of new business ventures

Acquire the essential skills and knowledge required to work in a business environment.

This course will teach you to:

  • Identify and implement business legal requirements
  • Negotiate and arrange contracts
  • Comply with legislation, codes and regulatory requirements
  • Identify and treat business risks
Conduct Backhoe / Loader Operations

Learn practical and theoretical skills behind backhoe and loader operations.

This course will teach you:

  • Plan and prepare for backhoe/loader operations
  • Operate backhoe/loader in line with established requirements
  • Load, carry and place materials to complete work activity
  • Select, remove and fit attachments for a backhoe/loader
  • Relocate the backhoe/loader
  • Conduct housekeeping duties
Your Trade Your Way

Want a job in construction, civil construction or manufacturing? 

Australian Trade Training College is running a 4-week Australian First Nations-only program designed to build skills and understanding of the Construction, Civil and Manufacturing industries. Your Trade Your Way provides participants with the foundations to enter the industry with technical training and employability skills.

Commencing at Country Paradise Parklands in Nerang on the 29th of July.

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Basic Open Cabler Registration Skill Set

The Basic Open Cabler Registration Skill Set is for new or existing workers in the telecommunications industry who wish to be employed as open registered cablers (Telecommunication Technician) in accordance with ACMA requirements.

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Food Safety Supervision Skill Set

The Food Safety Supervision Skill Set is a course for new or existing workers in the hospitality industry who wish to gain skills in hygienic practices and handling food safely.

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Qualified Technical Person (QTP) and Qualified Business Person (QBP)

The Qualified Technical Person (QTP) and Qualified Business Person (QBP) short courses are designed for individuals who are needing to obtain their Electrical Contractors Licence in Queensland. These short courses are for individuals planning on contracting in Queensland, or are needing to renew their licence, and covers the Electrical Safety Office (ESO) requirements.

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Qualified Business Person (QBP)

The Qualified Business Person (QBP) short course covers the knowledge and skills to follow and comply with work health and safety regulations and codes of practices, legal requirements and industry standards within the Electrotechnology industry.

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Qualified Technical Person (QTP)

The Qualified Technical Person (QTP) short course covers the knowledge and skills to follow work health and safety requirements when preparing for, conducting and reporting findings of a compliance inspection.

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Electrical Safety Testing of Electrical Cord Connected Equipment and Cord Assemblies Skill Set

This Skill Set is designed for those individuals wishing to undertake the testing, tagging and reporting of portable/handheld low voltage (LV) electrical equipment using a portable appliance tester (PAT).

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Restricted Electrical Licence (QLD)

A Restricted Electrical Licence authorises the holder to perform electrical work of a particular type stated on their licence. This licence limits an individual to specific electrical work associated with work from another trade or calling.

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Course in Electrician – Minimum Australian Context Gap

The knowledge and skills of many overseas workers can be very high, but there are differences in the way the technical expertise needs to be applied in Australia. The Course in Electrician – Minimum Australian Context Gap (MACG) provides the Australian Context Gap training to holders of an Offshore Technical Skills Record (OTSR) and seeking to work in Australia, and is required to be completed before an Electrotechnology Electrician qualification can be granted by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and occupational licence issued.

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