Seizing and extending of critical loads

General · Safety · Classroom ·

Target Audience

Employees who, on a company site in facilities or workshops, have to hoist and move critical loads and/or coordinate these works when carrying out lifting works.

Objectives

Acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to correctly, efficiently, and safely handle critical loads.

Are regarded as critical loads: loads whose center of gravity is not known and/or which do not have permanently defined

stop points. Loads which have to be positioned with great precision and thus have to be steered with great precision.

Course content

THEORY

• Determine risks specific to the equipment and space, analyse and control.
• Basic legislation and responsibilities rigger and signalman.
• Use of protective equipment.
• Performing a safety function.
• Inspection requirements of lifting equipment and rigging equipment
• Attachment techniques and associated attachment factors.
• Determining the weight, center of gravity, and attachment points of a load.
• The use of different attachment materials with their application area and limitations.
• Special lifting tools: plate clamp, lifting clamp, hoists, lifting beam.
• The economic aspects of maintenance.
• Influence of temperature and environmental factors.
• The different elements of visual inspection.
• Following safety regulations and performing LMRA.
• Points to consider when safely manipulating a load.
• The conventional signaling techniques between persons.

PRACTICE

• Carrying out the LMRA (Last Minute Risk Analysis).
• Safety rules and the use of protective equipment.
• Performing checks before using lifting equipment.
• Choice of material according to the application.
• Lifting techniques and associated lifting factors.
• Determining the weight and centre of gravity of a load.
• Choosing the correct and safest method of slinging in depending on the different types of loads.
• Lifting using common equipment such as steel cables, chains, hoists, lifting beams, synthetic lifting belts, etc…
• Interpreting a lifting plan to hoist and manipulate a load correctly. lifting and manipulating a load.