1 day - Price £275 plus Vat

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive training programme for graffiti removal operatives. The course includes extensive hands on practical sessions to enable all graffiti removal tasks to be handled safely and with confidence.

It includes Health and Safety, Personal Protection Equipment, graffiti removal chemicals and equipment, COSHH assessment, risk assessment and graffiti removal techniques from each type of surface.

A certificate is given to those that complete the course. Each delegate will return from this training able to clear graffiti from all surfaces safely and without damaging the underlying surface

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Who should attend the course:

• Employees new to graffiti removal.
• Those who want to improve and learn new skills.
• Administration and management staff wanting a better understanding of graffiti removal.

The course is held every month and can form an important element of induction training programmes for new staff.

Employees will learn valuable skills allowing them to contribute more to a company or organisation and will provide greater personal satisfaction. The course will help employers meet their obligations to staff development and to improve and reinforce Health and Safety.

Course content

• Introduction
• Personal Protection Equipment
• Removal of graffiti from a brick wall
• Selecting a pressure washer
• Using a gun with a variable pressure control
• Removing ghosting from a brick wall
• Extending the life of brushes
• Removal of graffiti from wooden fences
• Removing graffiti stains from brickwork pointing
• Removing graffiti from pebble dashing
• Removal of thick painted graffiti and paint spills
• Potential problems when removing graffiti from porous surfaces
• Water and fuel supplies
• Graffiti Management and Risk Assessment
• Graffiti removal from painted surfaces
• Damage caused by the use of scouring pads
• Removing leather dye and stubborn marker pen graffiti
• Removing graffiti from signs
• Removing graffiti from polycarbonate surfaces
• Removing graffiti from other non-porous surfaces
• Graffiti Removal and COSHH
• Permanent and Sacrificial anti-graffiti coatings
• Application and cleaning of Permanent Coatings
• Application and cleaning of Sacrificial Coatings
• Painting over graffiti
• Avoiding a coloured patchwork
• Matching colours
• Safety & environmental aspects of graffiti removal products

Included in the price:
Overalls and all personal protective equipment except footwear - delegates need to provide their own steel toe-capped shoes or boots.
Morning and afternoon refreshments
Buffet lunch
Parking

Not included:
Travel and accommodation
Footwear

Prices are per delegate and exclude Vat.

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GraffitiHotline Training
and Development Centre
Dean Hill Park, West Dean, Salisbury, Hampshire, SP5 1EZ

How to find us

Dean Hill enjoys excellent train services from Dean Station, a short walk from the site, to both Southampton to the south and Salisbury and Bristol to the north, with connections to London (Waterloo) taking less than two hours.

The main A36 Salisbury-Southampton road is some 4 miles to the west and the A30 Salisbury-London about 8 miles to the north.

From the A303: head south to Broughton on the B3084. One mile south of Broughton turn right signposted Lockerley, continue 1-1/2 miles and turn left at the T-junction. After 2 miles turn right to West Dean. Dean Hill Park is on the left after 1 1/2 miles.

From Salisbury: leave Salisbury on the A36 traveling south to the first junction signed West Grimstead, continue through West Grimstead bearing right at the T-junction after 3 miles. At West Dean, turn right before the river and continue one third of a mile. Dean Hill Park is on the right.

From Dean railway station (on foot): Turn left on leaving the railway station. After 100m cross a river bridge and turn left signposted East Dean. Dean Hill Park will be found on the right after one third of a mile.