Crane Inspection and Operations: Certified Crane Lift Supervisor (CLS)
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Crane Inspection and Operations: Certified Crane Lift Supervisor (CLS) Course
Introduction:
The investment in thorough inspector training yields substantial rewards. A properly trained and qualified inspector can save your company significant amounts of money and time by preventing scheduled downtime, costly repairs, accidents, and legal disputes. The inspection process plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety and optimal utilization of your cranes. With extensive experience in inspecting a wide range of lift equipment, adhering to General Industry, Maritime, and Construction Safety Standards, our program incorporates inspection worksheets developed based on the practical field experiences of our inspection staff. These worksheets will be utilized throughout the training program.
Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- To provide participants with the knowledge and skill to safely operate a Mobile/Tower/Overhead cranes or offshore Pedestal cranes.
- Get familiarized with the methods of pre-lift planning by understanding the lift plan requirements, module lift, and ANSI/OSHA standards
- Become aware of all aspects of mobile crane safety such as crane signals, crane identification, hoisting systems, and crane safety features
- Enhance knowledge in risk assessment methodology by reviewing of fatality reports resulting from improper rigging practices, and other special considerations such as slip, trip, fall hazards, electrical hazards, explosive environment and etc
- Pre-start up and pre-operational checks
- Operators responsibility
- Plan and prepare work/hazard control strategies
- Engineering principles of cranes
- Calculation of load mass (weight)
- Fully understand the load factors and limitations of slings and lifting equipment. Inspection of gear
- Interpret load charts
- Understand static and dynamic factors
- Working relation with riggers or dogman (banksman)
- Ground bearing pressures in relation to stabilizers.
- Mobilising loads
- Unloading/loading of supply boats, deck management skills (offshore)
Who Should Attend?
his 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 directly involved in lifting operations, maintenance and/or construction-related crane activities will find the course helpful and beneficial.
Course Outlines:
Machine Size and Characteristics:
- Operational Modes
- Major Components
- Capacity and Limitations
- Periodic Inspections Objectives
- Hazard Awareness
Accident Prevention:
- Crane Failures and Prevention
- OSHA: Compliance and Inspections
- Recognition of Unsafe Equipment
- Wire Rope Selection and Installation
- Wire Rope Inspection and Rejection
- How to correct Block Spin
- Sheave Inspection
- Pneumatics and Hydraulics