Given the safety benefits and increased efficiency for workers that drones can provide, as well as cost savings and a reduction in asset downtime for inspections, the use of drones across industry has grown rapidly in recent years.
However, until now, no consistent training programme has existed for operators using drones within an industrial setting.
The new ECITB Foundation UAS training course, created in close collaboration with the UK Drone Association, ARPAS-UK, is now officially available to training providers across the country. The course will support both industry and people who would like to develop their knowledge and skills to operate drones in industrial environments. The official launch follows the success of a pilot programme in 2022.
Drones are especially useful in the oil and gas, nuclear and renewables sectors, significantly reducing worker exposure to work-at-height risks and other hazardous environments, such as viewing the inside...