Safe Quad Bike Skills
Course details
Domestic tuition | $360 per year |
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About the course
This course is designed to focus on quad bike use and safety for regular users of quad’s in agriculture, forestry, horticulture, construction and other compliance areas.
Please note that our courses are available at several locations, including your workplace.
What you will learn
- ATV pre-use daily checks and serviceability issues
- Start-up and shut-down procedures
- Loading and unloading an ATV from a trailer
- Hazard identification and safety margin awareness
- Obstacle recognition and negotiation
- Active riding skills
- Stability dynamics including loads carried, loads towed and load security
- Understanding tyres and the importance of correct inflation pressures
- Correct hill ascent and descent riding techniques and associated issues and limits
- Ground composition and contour recognition and riding techniques to ensure safety
- Traversing side slopes
About the provider
NorthTec is part of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (Te Pūkenga). Te Pūkenga brings the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) and the arranging training activities of certain Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) together to create a national network.
As one national network, Te Pūkenga will provide flexible, career-focused learning that fits around your life – on-the-job, on campus and online. Helping our people, our communities and our workforces grow and thrive together.
NorthTec has campuses and learning centres in Whangarei, Ngāwhā/Kaikohe, Kerikeri, Dargaville and Kaitaia.
We’re transforming lives right here in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland so whether you imagine yourself as a chef, a nurse, or dream of getting a job in a trade, check out our over 100 programmes and enrol now for a brighter future.