Overhead Crane & Hoist Inspector (On-Site)
Crane Tech can deliver training for your inspectors that ensures you can build a high degree of safety and reliability into all of your cranes. Our personnel who provide instruction in this field have a lifetime of experience that can save you time and money by making sure your inspectors fully understand how to perform comprehensive inspections. Hands-on training means your personnel demonstrate their ability to perform on the job and skills training fills identified gaps.
Specific Training Objectives:
- To ensure that crane inspectors have the knowledge and skills required to perform periodic inspections.
- To ensure your inspectors can build a high degree of safety and reliability into all of the cranes at your facility.
Course Overview:
This program may include top running overhead bridge cranes, under hung cranes, monorail hoists, gantry cranes, and jib cranes. Presented in an easy to understand manner; requirements for compliance as well as practical methods to inspect and verify safety of your cranes forms the core of this program. Technical training combined with hands-on training ensures competency of your personnel and allows them to learn from professionals with many years of overhead crane inspection and maintenance experience.
Key Training Elements:
- Ensuring the inspector’s safety
- Understanding integration of crane components
- Compliance with OSHA and ASME
- Verification of equipment safety
Course Topics Include:
- Machine characteristics
- How to check operational modes
- Major operational components
- Brake types and their characteristics
- Capacity considerations and limitations
- Safety devices and inspections
- Contributing causes of crane failures
- Required basic maintenance
- Recognition of unsafe conditions
- Load bearing and load controlling parts
- Electrical disconnect inspection
- Inspection frequency
- Holding and controlling brakes
- Wire rope inspection
- Hoist chain inspection
- Safety device Inspection
- Lockout/tag-out requirements
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- Hoist power systems inspection
- Hook and block inspection
- Hoist suspension inspection
- Pendant and cab controller inspection
- Trolleys and trolley drive units
- Bridge drive inspection
- Track and rail inspection
- Switches and interlock inspection
- Resistors & electrical inspection
- Electrical and mechanical load control brakes
- Load control brakes inspection
- Overload protection devices
- Inspect collectors and conductors
- Inspect stops, bumpers and sweeps
- Drum and sheave inspection
- Reeving and controlling block twist
- Record keeping requirements
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