Course details
Overhead Crane and Rigging Safety
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.
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








































