Crane Driving and Slinging

To assist delegates who are involved with the use or supervision of Overhead Cranes and Slinging of loads to appreciate their responsibilities under law.

Participants will:

• Have an understanding of their own responsibilities and their organisation’s legal requirements
• Apply Procedures in accordance with good working practice
• Reduce incidents involved with the use of Overhead Cranes

• Legal Requirement of Organisations
• Strength and Stability
• Lifting Equipment for Lifting Persons
• Positioning and Installation
• Marking of Lifting Equipment
• Examination and Inspection
• Organisation of Lifting Operation
• Reports and Defects
• Keeping Information and Records
• Training of Operators
• Crane Operations
• Start-up Procedures and Inspection
• Crane Driving Techniques
• Code of Practice
• Defect Reporting
• Safe Working Loads
• Close-down Procedures
• Slinging of Loads
• Estimation of Weights
• Identification of Slinging Methods and Techniques
• Selection and Inspection of Slings
• SWL and Loading of Slings
• Fault Finding in Slinging Operations
• Storage of Slings
• Equipment other than Slings used for Lifting
• Defects Reporting

This programme uses a mixture of group discussions, syndicate exercises, pro-forma examples and information input sessions, along with case studies and exercises to fully involve participants.