Overhead Cranes Safety Program

Chapter Section

Training of all operators should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Company rules, regulations and procedures.
• Capacities of equipment and attachments.
• Purpose, use and limitation of controls.
• How to make daily checks.
• The energizing sequences, including pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical sequences.
• Start-up and shutdown procedures.
• Emergency shutdown procedures.
• General operating procedures.
• All basic signaling procedures, including verbal, hand and radio signals, where required.
• Knowledge of accepted guidelines as published by the EOT (Electric Overhead Traveling) crane industry governing bodies as well as local, state and Federal rules and regulations.
• Practice in operating the assigned equipment through the mechanical functions necessary to perform the required task.
• Maximum rated capacity of the crane.
• Best practice and accepted operating procedures.
• Basic safety guidelines of operating an overhead crane.
• Dos and Don’ts of operating an overhead crane.
• How to avoid an accident when operating an overhead crane.
• What to do should an accident occur.
• Training of all riggers should include the following:
• Company rules, regulations and procedures.
• The requirements of the Code of Federal Regulation; Title 29, Part 1910.179, Overhead and Gantry Cranes
• The requirements of the Code of Federal Regulation; Title 29, Part 1910.184, Slings.
• Knowledge of accepted guidelines as published by the EOT (Electric Overhead
• Traveling) crane industry governing bodies as well as local, state and Federal rules and regulations.
• Maximum capacity of the crane.
• Best practice and accepted rigging procedures.
• Basic safety guidelines for rigging a load.
• Dos and Don’ts for rigging a load.
• How to avoid an accident when for rigging a load.
• What to do should an accident occur.