Course details
Overhead Crane and Rigging Safety
Course Overview
This course provides essential knowledge for maintaining a safe work environment when using overhead cranes. You'll learn about crane components, inspection procedures, lifting techniques, and communication protocols to prevent incidents. It also covers rigging basics — including how to identify damaged components, ensure safe load setup, and understand your equipment's capabilities.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize the different types of overhead cranes and their proper uses
- Understand the importance of pre-work inspections and regular crane maintenance
- Understand the importance of proper and up-to-date training
- Perform pre-work inspections
- Know what component breakdown hazards to look for and how to prevent them
- Maintain a safe overhead crane environment on a worksite
- Communicate effectively using universal signals
- Understand the importance of proper and up-to-date rigging training
- Perform pre-work inspections
- Know what component breakdown hazards to look for and how to prevent them
- Use rigging correctly, and
- Handle loads in a safe manner
Topics Covered
- Types of overhead cranes
- A breakdown of a crane’s parts
- What can go wrong when limits are not respected
- How to prevent accidents, including:
- The importance of a pre-work inspection and how to properly conduct one
- Training
- Knowledge of your specific machine
- Being fit for work, and
- Maintenance practices including lock out tag out, as well as
- Safety responsibilities of both crane owner and operator
- Basic crane safety principles
- General worksite safety
- Safe communication procedures
- Rigging components
- Rigging safe practices and procedures, and
- Proper load handling
This course takes approximately 240 minutes to complete
A passing grade of 80% or higher required. Up to 3 attempts are provided.
A certificate will be provided upon the successful completion of this course
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