Certified Lifting & Rigging Equipment: selection, Sizing, Inspection, Operation, Diagnostic testing, Troubleshooting & maintenance
Introduction
Certified Lifting & Rigging Equipment: selection, Sizing, Inspection, Operation, Diagnostic testing, Troubleshooting & maintenance
Objectives
Participants achieve the following learning outcomes from the program;
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- Understand the relevant regulations pertaining to lifting operations (e.g. LOLER and PUWER)
- Assess loads in terms of their weight and center of gravity
- Understand SWLs and color coding
- Carry out pre-use inspections on equipment used in rigging and slinging to ensure safe lifting
- Sling loads and ensures they are secure and ready for lifting
- Identify the correct hand and radio signals to be used
- Apply the correct use of different lifting equipment (e.g. chain blocks, tirfors, slings, shackles, and chains)
- Recognize the correct packing and stowage of containers, half heights, and correct securing methods
- Identify all the safety precautions to be taken whilst working with cranes and rigging equipment in terms of issues such as safe stances
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for lifting equipment operators, inspectors of lifting equipment, rigging personnel and contractors, maintenance and project managers, plant managers and technicians and maintenance mechanical engineers, supervisors & foremen, safety program managers and all personnel involved in rigging and slinging operations.
Course Outline
Day 1: Theory and Practice
- Fiber rope
- Knots
- Flexible steel ropes
- Slinging
- Mass weights
- Lifting & Slinging
- Safety
Day 2: Theory and Practice (cont’d)
- Basic crane operations
- Safe operations on deck
- Safe operations with cranes
- Where applicable:- local Risk Assessment & Method Statements
- Relevant legal requirements and published guidance material
- Introduction to the different types of lifting gear, their functions, limitations, and reasons for possible failure
- Routine care, inspection, maintenance, and reporting of defects - information will be given on the criteria for rejection (although it is not expected that the trainees will have sufficient knowledge or experience to be able to act as 'Competent Persons' to carry out thorough examinations)
Day 3: Theory and Practice (cont’d)
- Assessment of loads, including estimation of weights and center of gravity
- Selection, correct use and practice in the use of appropriate lifting gear, including methods of slinging, the methods of rating for multi-legged slings
- The concepts of working load limit and safe working load, interpretation of markings and de-rating of lifting gear for any particular adverse conditions of use
- Signaling methods, including the recognized code of manual signals
- Record keeping to the extent that this will be the slinger's responsibility
- Assessment
Day 4:
- Rigging Selection
- Rigging Use & Inspection
- Load Weight Estimation
- Center of Gravity
- Load Distribution
- Sling Tension (same elevation)
- Load Control
- Signals & Tag Lines
Day 5: Chain Fall & Load Drilling
- Load Turning
- Levers, Jacking, & Rolling
- Off-level Pick Points
- Accident Case Study