CSCS Telescopic Handler case studies
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The CSCS Telescopic Handler test is the health, safety and environment theory assessment that candidates typically sit as part of the route towards a telescopic handler (telehandler) competence card. It is aimed at operators who load, lift, transfer and place materials with a forward-reaching boom machine, and at those renewing or extending an existing operator card. The CSCS Telescopic Handler case studies are 5 cases and about 2,628 words.
1The Overhead Line Near the Grain Store
You are the telehandler operator on a farm improvement project. Your task is to move 1.2 t pallets of block paving from a delivery area to a stockpile beside a new grain store.
551 words, about 3 min2The Capacity Chart at Full Reach
You are lifting roof trusses onto a single-storey extension. The trusses are bundled at 900 kg.
516 words, about 3 min3The Damaged Sling and the Unknown Load
You are asked to lift a steel fabrications crate from a lorry bed to a concrete pad 12 m away. The crate weighs, according to the delivery note, 1,100 kg, but the note also lists 'contents may vary'.
533 words, about 3 min4The Pre-Start That Found Three Faults
It is 06:40 and you are the first on site. You carry out the daily pre-use check on the telehandler.
518 words, about 3 min5The Blind Lift Around the Corner
You need to move a 700 kg pack of insulation from a delivery point to the first floor of a building under construction. The route is: out of the yard, round a 90-degree corner where a scaffold standards row narrows the gap to about 3.2 m (your machine is 2.4 m wide with the boom centred), then up a ramp of 1 in 8 to a loading bay.
510 words, about 3 min