Pre-requisites: Candidates must have successfully passed the CSCS Health, Safety and Environment touchscreen test for either Managers or Supervisors within the past two years.
Course Duration:
- Days One - Four: Theory and practical training - Day Five: CPCS theory and practical tests
Course Content:
During the training course, candidates will learn to:
Slinger Signaller
- Describe the nature of the sector of industry and their role and responsibilities as a plant operator - Name and explain the purpose of differing types of lifting equipment and lifting accessories, basic construction, uses and applications, characteristics and terminology - Conform with manufacturer's requirements as per technical data, other types of information source and relevant regulations and legislation - Interpret and extract information on all relevant documentation - Undertake all pre-use checks on non-specialist lifting accessories and identify non-serviceable items - Explain procedures for placing non-serviceable items out-of-service - Identify centres of gravity and estimate weights of loads - Prepare and ready the area of operation - Choose the relevant lifting accessory for a given load - Explain action required for hazards, underground and overhead services - Secure various types of load to a lifting hook using the relevant lifting accessory and procedures - Ensure load balance, security and integrity - Direct and guide the movement of loads to different types of location - Accurately place loads - Arrange, use and comply with communication procedures - Maintain safe working situations - Carry out out-of-service and securing procedures
Crane Supervisor
- Explain the duties and responsibilities of: an Appointed Person, a Crane Supervisor, a Crane Operator, a Slinger Signaller, a Crane Erector and maintenance personnel - State basic requirements of legislation, regulations, and codes of practice that relate to all types of lifting duties - Explain additional requirements for loads to be lifted from height - Explain maintenance, inspections, thorough examination and testing requirements for lifting equipment and accessories - State requirements that allow safe site access and egress for typical lifting equipment - Describe setting up, erection, levelling and dismantling requirements for different types of lifting equipment and lifts - Explain the function and use off, and use information provided by RCIs and anti-collision systems - List different types of lifting accessories and explain typical applications - Identify and explain relevant information relating to different types of lifting accessories i.e. markings, certificates and thorough examination reports, etc. - Verify sling sizes and angles - Explain slinging techniques for given loads including balanced, unbalanced and loose - Verify appropriate lifting accessories for given types of loads in accordance with a given method statement - Confirm weights and centres of gravity for different types of loads in accordance with a given method statement - Describe and demonstrate different types of communication methods for lifting purposes - Communicate the lift plan information to others involved in a lifting operation - Report and explain positive and negative aspects of a typical lift following the operation to the Appointed Person - Identify potential hazards and unsafe lifting practices using given lifting scenarios - Evaluate and explain how environmental factors and the surrounding area, external to the lift zone, can affect the planned lifting operation - Prepare an area, with exclusion zones, from given lifting plans, ensuring safe access / egress routes before, during and after the lift - Mark the position of lifting equipment according to a given lift plan - Verify potential proximity and underground hazards from given plans and drawings - Confirm personnel requirements to meet the lift plan - Mark the position of lifting accessories and prepare load spreading systems as required - Confirm lifting equipment configurations from given plans - Control a lifting operation using a given lift plan
Certification: Upon successful completion of the course, candidates will receive a CPCS Trained Operator 'Red' card which is valid for two years.
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