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elvProTech©



Ensuring experienced ELV depollution and dismantling technicians are equipped with the skills required to meet the industry's future challenges.

elvProTech Shield
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elvProTech  ©

EMPLOYERS

Our elvProTech© Qualification demonstrates to enforcement agencies and clients alike that staff are competent and trusted professionals.

This course delivers our entire elvTech© Qualification along with a further five advanced courses, two of which are elective to tailor to your technician's or business's needs.  Invest in your staff and ensure that your technicians not only have the necessary skillset to support your current dismantling operation, but are also trained ready to meet future business challenges.

Successfully completing and passing our qualification route provides automatic enrolment on the UK's only Depollution Register. A public database set up to ensure candidates, employers and treatment facilities alike, can quickly verify a technician's qualification and competencies.

EMPLOYEES

Our elvProTech© Qualification ensures your knowledge and skills stand out from the competition.

Demonstrate to employers that you have met the requirements of the UK's National Occupational Standards and that you take pride in your automotive career.

This course delivers our entire elvTech© programme along with a further five advanced modules, to ensure you are equipped with the skills to meet today's and tomorrow's depollution and dismantling challenges. In addition, you will receive automatic enrolment on the UK's only Public Depollution Register, ensuring that you, employers and treatment facilities, can quickly verify your qualification and any additional disciplines. Want to show prospective employers that you are serious about your automotive career? Then demonstrate your commitment to go further with an elvProTech© qualification.

WHAT IS

INCLUDED?

elvTech

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5 Specialist Modules  = 

elvProTech 

Fifteen core elvTech© modules encompassing all aspects of standard vehicle depollution.

Three compulsory modules including:

  • Referencing & Retrieving Vehicle Technical Data;

  • Post Depollution Requirements and Procedures;

  • Safe Extraction of Diesel Exhaust Fluid.

A further two specialist modules from a choice of thirteen subject areas.

Best practice shared by Industry Experts.

A programme built around the IMI's newly launched National Occupational Standards.

Free enrolment on the ELV Depollution Register (valid for 3 years) with elvProTech© recognition.

Specialist Modules

Abrasive Wheels Awareness Training

Abrasive wheels present numerous risks and challenges when in use in the workplace. This course is designed to enable operators to use abrasive wheels safely in an automotive or ELV dismantling environment.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

Chemical Safety in the Automotive Industry

Hazardous substances are a significant feature of the automotive workplace and ELV depollution. This e-learning health and safety module provides the essential requirements of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

ELV Guidance for Waste Sites

ELV Regulations categorise end-of-life motor vehicles as waste (much of which is made up of hazardous materials) and as such, strict controls apply. This course provides an overview of the legal requirements in relation to scrapping, disposal and recycling of ELVs, including their storage and treatment by Authorised Treatment Facilities.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR

ELV Legislation Regulation and Enforcement

There are numerous pieces of legislation and law that apply to the ELV sector. This course offers an overview of UK and EU ELV legislation and enforcement, in addition to providing a summary of the overarching Health and Safety Laws that apply to the vehicle dismantling sector.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

Explosive Atmospheres and DSEAR

Explosive atmospheres in the workplace can be caused by flammable gases, mists or vapours or by combustible dusts. This DSEAR training course provides you with a full introduction to requirements and regulations and will ensure you understand the risks from dangerous substances and explosive atmospheres, specifically relating to vehicle workshops and ELV depollution activities.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

Machine Safety in the Automotive Industry

There is lots of specialist machinery associated with ELV depollution and dismantling. This machine and tooling safety course is all about ensuring equipment is kept in good working order, is never operated in a defective state, undergoes periodic maintenance, and is only operated by competent people.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

Post Depollution Requirements and Procedures

Legislation stipulates that Authorised Treatment Facilities have certain responsibilities once they have depolluted an End-of-Life vehicle. This course explores the post-depollution requirements of ELVs, and the responsibilities of ATFs.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR

Referencing and Retrieving Vehicle Technical Data

There are various sources of information within the depollution and dismantling sector. This course is designed to allow ELV technicians to efficiently navigate through source for the relevant technical data, so they are equipped to efficiently, safely and compliantly depollute and dismantle ELVs.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

Refrigerant Recovery from Vehicle Air Conditioning

Hazardous waste includes equipment containing ozone depleting substances, like air conditioning equipment in motor vehicles. This course provides an overview of safely and compliantly working and decommissioning air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles, and the health and safety risks involved.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
45 MINUTES

Safe Extraction of Diesel Exhaust Fluid

AdBlue® / AUS32 / DEF is essential for the operation of some cars, tractors, trucks, trains and boats. This course is designed for anyone who needs the technical knowledge to be able to safely and compliantly recover AdBlue® / AUS32 /DEF from those diesel fuelled vehicles that incorporate it as part of a Selective Catalytic Reduction system.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
30 MINUTES

Safe Operation of Vehicle Lifts

The number one cause of vehicles falling from lifts is user error. Learning how to safely use a car lift could save your life. The HSE and Health and Safety regulations including LOLER and PUWER require lift safety training for anyone who operates an automotive lift. This course teaches the correct use of vehicle lifts.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR 15 MINUTES

Safe Recovery and Flaring of Liquid Petroleum Gas

Technicians working with alternative fuelled LPG powered cars and vans must be able to safely recover or flare the fuel from an ELV. This course teaches delegates how to do it safely.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
1 HOUR

Understanding Vehicle Recycling

The automobile is already one of the most effectively recovered and recycled consumer products, with its parts being used again in vehicles or for other purposes. This introductory course offers students an overview of the processes involved in recycling vehicles, the technologies adopted and the typical machinery used within sector.

Format
Duration
ONLINE
45 MINUTES
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