Digger Derrick Operator (On-Site)
This program provides safety training to ensure those who operate digger derricks fully understand their responsibilities for pre-operation inspection, proper set-up, safe operation, and minor maintenance.
Specific Training Objectives:
- Equipment design characteristics
- Capacity considerations and limitations
- Contributing causes of accidents
- Pre-operational inspections
- Evaluating the work area
- Proper set-up and use of stabilizers
- Wire and fiber rope inspection
- Load rating charts
- Effects of dynamics
- Operator safety
- Fall protection requirements
Course Overview:
This program may be customized to address your specific equipment. When on-site training is conducted we make sure your exact equipment and operations are covered as core topics.
Key Training Elements:
- Site and set-up
- Operations
- Technical knowledge
- Manufacturer’s load charts
- Auxiliary tools and devices
Course Topics Include:
- Digger derrick terminology and definitions
- Supporting surfaces and the expected loads
- Know electric power line hazards
- How to identify and evaluate hazards
- Know how to perform a pre-use inspection
- Requirements for personal protective equipment
- Know how to plan the job
- Understand the proper setup of digger derricks
- Purpose of decals and placards
- Operating in various weather conditions
- Understand the operation of all controls
- Federal regulations and industry standards
- Knowledge of dielectric protection and safety
- Know how to identify unsafe equipment conditions
- How to swing and place the load smoothly and safely
- Hand, voice, & non-standard signals
- Machine shut down and secure
- How to verify machine capacity
- Requirements for operational aids & safety devices
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- Know how to recognize hazards
- Proper procedures for load control
- Know how to react to emergency conditions
- Know the effects of dynamic loading and side loading
- Operations for digging and pole setting
- Functions and limitations of the digger derrick
- Load line proper use and care
- Protective measures against electrical hazards
- Load share in multi-digger derrick lifts
- Significance instruments and gauge readings
- Requirements for inspections and basic maintenance
- How to use attachments and accessories
- Requirements of qualification and/or certification
- Operations and requirements for the use of winches
- How to verify the load chart is the appropriate
- How to use capacity load charts
- How to calculate net capacity using the load charts
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