Lantra/ NPTC CS30 – 2 days Chainsaw Maintenance & Safe Use to Crosscutting

This course is intended for anyone who intends to use a chainsaw for business, domestic or leisure activities, but does not intend to work in forestry or arboricultural activities or work on Forest Enterprise land.

Correct protective clothing must be worn. A chainsaw complying with the pre course handout and an operator’s maintenance kit is needed by the trainee.

Course Content:

• Legislation
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Safety and health features of a chainsaw
• Maintaining the saw chain
• Maintaining the guidebar
• Engine maintenance,
• Starting the chainsaw,
• Cross-cutting timber
• Stack timber

Course length

• 2 days
• 1 day refresher is available

Upon successful completion candidates will gain Lantra certification, or after a further independent NPTC assessment can gain NPTC certification CS30.