Module # 1 CRANE INSPECTIONS
-Importance of regular inspections.
-Importance of keeping records of inspections and maintenance.
-Hazard Assesment
-Frequency and types of inspections.
-Importance of following manufacturer’s specifications when
performing maintenance on hoisting equipment.
Crane Safety Ltd. video # 872 (Hydraulic Cranes).
Module # 2 SAFE OPERATING PRACTICES
-How to set up and level machine according to manufacturer’s instructions.
-Effects of improper set up; side loading, capacity loss and
machine damage.
-Types of outrigger blocking necessary for variable ground conditions.
-Importance of pre planning all lifts (pre engineering) before they are hoisted.
-Proper procedure if power line contact is made.
-Proper use of boom mounted personnel baskets and buckets
-International hand signals.
-Pick and carry operations.
-Multiple crane lifts. Dynamics & considerations.
-Night time operations.
-Types of crane accidents; causes and prevention.
Stability failure, structural failure, rigging failure and power
line contact.
-Shock loading; causes and cures.
C.S.A.O. video (International Hand Signals).
Module #3 RULES & RESPONSIBILITIES
-Pre-lift hazard assessments.
-Crane owner’s responsibilities.
-Crane operator’s responsibilities.
-Site owners’ (site supervisors’) responsibilities
Module # 4 READING AND USING A CAPACITY CHART.
-Determining crane capacities by interpreting manufacturer’s load
and on rubber lift charts.
-Importance of understanding gross and net capacities.
-Understanding the difference between structural and stability
values contained in load capacity charts.
-Identify quadrants of operation from load chart data.
-Importance of reading and understanding all information
contained in the operator’s manual and all manufacturer’s notes
and warnings contained in load chart data.
Crane Safety Ltd. video # 871 ( Reading and using a Capacity Chart).
Module # 5 WIRE ROPE.
-Wire rope construction.
-Safety factors for hoist lines.
-Reasons for safety factors.
-Hoist line inspections.
Crane Safety Ltd. video # 873 (Wire Rope Safety).
Module #6 LOAD RIGGING PRACTICES
-Breaking strength, safety factor and safe working load.
-Wire rope and nylon web sling inspection.
-Identification and inspection of chains acceptable for hoisting.
-Determine sling types, sizes and configurations for rigging
given lifts using sling capacity charts.
-Importance of sling angles for multiple leg slinging of loads.
-Effects of load center of gravity & sling location.
C.S.A.O. video (Safety in Rigging; Chain.).
W.S.T.D.A. video (Proper inspection & use of synthetic slings)
Module #7 RIGGING HARDWARE
-The proper use of shackles, hooks and other rigging hardware.
-Inspection of shackles, hooks and other rigging devices.
-How and why spreader bars are used.
Module # 6 HANDS ON SAFETY TRAINING.
-Hazard Assesment
-Pre operational inspection:
-Check and replenish all levels, condition of belts, tires, pins and keepers, mounting bolts, weldments.
-Condition and spooling of wire rope, hook block, hook, wedge and socket.
-All slings and rigging hardware.
-Setting up and leveling machine in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions.
-Pick & carry operations.
-Measuring the load radius.
-Determining the total load from the net load.
-Applying the total load to the values in the load capacity chart, area diagram
and range diagram to determine where the load can be placed after hoisting.
-Rigging different loads with proper sling size and configuration.
-Giving and following international hand signals.
-Lifting and placing the load within the capacity of the machine.
This module is normally left until the end of the course and can
compromise twenty-five to fifty per cent of the total course
depending on the number of students.
