Tower Crane Operator (On-Site)
Tower crane operators require skill and knowledge to keep your job site safe. Crane Tech can help build these skills and enhance your company’s ability to provide safety for other workers on the site. This program provides training to ensure those who operate tower cranes fully understand their responsibilities for pre-operation inspection, proper set-up, safe operation, and minor maintenance.
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:
- Safe Working Practices
- Inspection and minor maintenance
- Proper operation
- Load Center of Gravity
- Operator responsibilities
- Load control
- Trolley spacing
- Signals
- Safety devices and checks
- Size and characteristics of cranes
- Operational modes
- Major operational components
- Operational limitations
- Safety devices: Requirements and purpose
- Operator’s responsibilities
- Pre-operational inspections
- Crane manufacturer’s instructions
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- Safety devices
- Recognizing unsafe conditions
- Evaluation of the work site
- Evaluation of the load to be handled
- Controlling the load
- Standard and designated hand signals
- OSHA documentation requirements
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