Wood Turning Lathe — Health & Safety Training

This course will enable delegates to acquire H&S accreditation certification through a ‘hands on’ approach using the machinery to complete simple set tasks. The tasks included will be preparing timber, parallel turning, taper turning, convex turning, concave turning, finishing & parting off. Delegates will undertake a number of exercises, including turning between centres and using faceplates and chucks. All the activities conform to the current D&T Association Training Standards.

Colleagues must be able to demonstrate, through practical activities, their capability in using a wood turning lathe, and their knowledge and understanding of:

What the course covers

• The types, parts and functions of the machines commonly found in school workshops, particularly the controls, safety devices; routine maintenance and the specific hazards e.g. dangers of rotating parts, out-of-balance masses
• The safe holding of work pieces including the mounting and removal of chucks, face plates, fork drives etc.
• The safe preparation of timber to be turned e.g. removing corners, the dangers associated with laminates, ensuring that surfaces to be mounted on a face plate are flat
• The selection and holding of appropriate types of tool, selection of correct speeds
• The need to use tools designed for use on the wood lathe e.g. do not use as scrapers modified tools such as files
• Common faults caused by incorrectly mounted work; wrong speed or feed; and their associated early warning signs