Mobile Crane
Laguna Crane’s Mobile Crane Qualification course provides technical training, hands-on skills training, and the required examinations to meet OSHA/ANSI standards. Equipment covered in this training may include: Hydraulic cranes, lattice boom cranes, carry deck cranes and boom trucks. Participants will learn from professional trainers with many years of experience.
Course Topics:
- Size and characteristics of cranes
- Operational modes
- Major operational components
- Attachments: Installation and Proper Use
- Capacity considerations (Net and Gross)
- Operational limitations
- Safety devices: requirements and purpose
- Accident analysis and preventative action
- Operator's responsibilities
- Pre-operational inspections
- Crane manufacturer's instructions
- Load devices equipment & safety devices
- Recognizing unsafe conditions
- Evaluation of the work site
- Supporting surface and ground stability
- Proper crane set-up
- Stability versus structural competence
- Load rating charts and instructional notes
- Jib configurations and load ratings
- Operational quadrants and how they affect capactiy
- Considerations for "on-rubber" lifting
- Operating near electric power sources
- Proper use of outriggers
- How out of level affects crane capacity
- Effects of side loading and dynamic loading
- Proper use of taglines and when they are required
- Proper shut down and securing of cranes
- Wire rope inspection methods and criteria
- Evaluation of the load to be handled
- Controlling the load
- Standard and designated hand signals
- Crane travel and transit: Methods and precautions
- OSHA documentation requirements
- Requirements of OSHA 1910 & 1926 standards
- Requirements of ASME B30.5
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Contact Information
4109 Hwy. 35 Bypass Aransas Pass, TX 78336
(P) 361-758-3130
(F) 361-758-1213