Rigger & Signaler (5 day duration)

• Introduction to Rigging: Rigging History, Rigging Safety, limits of Safe Operation, and Safe Practices.
• Wire Rope: Construction and Design, Working load Limit (WLL), Safe Work Practices, Wire Rope Inspection, and Spooling Wire Rope.
• Chains: Construction and Design, Safe Work Practices, and Chain Inspections
• Slings: Slings, Wire Rope Slings, Synthetic Web Slings, Twin Path Slings, Metal Mesh Slings, and Sling Inspection.
• Hardware: Construction and Design, and Hardware Inspection.
• Fiber Rope: Construction and Design, Knots, Bends, Hitches and Splices, Useful Tools, Procedures for Making Knots, Bends, Hitches and Splices.
• Sling Selection Criteria: Load Weights, Center of Gravity, Hitch Configuration, Factors Affecting Sling Selection.
• Cranes: Types of Cranes, Factors that Affect Crane Safety, Capacity Charts, and Critical Hoists.Cranes: Types of Cranes, Factors that Affect Crane Safety, Capacity Charts, and Critical Hoists.
• Voice and Hand Signals: Standard Signals, Mobile Hydraulic Telescoping Boom Crane Signals, Mobile Lattice Boom and Crawler Crane Signals, Overhead Crane Signals, and Tower Crane Signals.