Lifting Operations & Rigging
Planning and executing safe mechanical lifting: lift categorisation and lift plans, rigging gear selection and inspection, lifting-team roles, and the exclusion-zone and line-of-fire controls that keep people away from suspended loads. For anyone who rigs, signals, supervises or works near crane and hoist operations.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain why a suspended load is stored energy and apply the never-under-a-suspended-load rule and exclusion zones
- Describe the roles in a lifting team — appointed person, lifting supervisor, crane operator, rigger/slinger and signaller — and the one-signaller rule
- Categorise lifts as routine or non-routine/critical and state what a documented lift plan must cover
- Select and inspect rigging gear using SWL/WLL, colour-coding and sling-angle derating, and reject damaged gear
- Carry out pre-lift checks in the correct sequence, including ground conditions, outrigger set-up, wind limits and dropped-object checks on the load
- Plan, brief and supervise a non-routine lift, and stop and re-plan when conditions deviate from the plan
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mSuspended Loads and the Line of FireKnowledge
- 3mWho Is Who in a Lifting TeamKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Working Near Lifting OperationsAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mLift Categorisation and the Lift PlanKnowledge
- 3mRigging Gear: Ratings, Angles and InspectionKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Planning and RiggingAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mSetting Up and Executing the LiftKnowledge
- 3mField Task: Rigging Inspection and Lift WalkdownAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Executing the LiftAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mPlanning and Supervising Non-Routine LiftsKnowledge
- 3mField Task: Produce and Brief a Lift PlanAssignment
- 8mMastery Check: Lift Planning JudgementAssessment
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