Aerial Work Platform Awareness
For supervisors and workers who use or work around scissor lifts, vertical mast lifts and boom lifts (awareness training, not operator training or familiarization): how falls, ejection, overturns, entrapment and electrocution happen, duties under the OHSA, O. Reg. 213/91 ss. 143 to 149, Alberta OHS Code s. 156 and the CSA B354.6, B354.7 and B354.8 standards, MEWP groups, types and safety features, the safe use plan and site assessment, pre-use inspection and function tests, ground bearing pressure, mats and stability, travel restraint on designated anchorages, secondary guarding and safe travel, limits of approach to power lines, wind and weather, loads, dropped objects and exiting at height, emergency lowering and rescue, and a capstone safe use plan review.
HSE-220 12 lessons · 5 h 37 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain how MEWP incidents happen through falls and ejection, overturns, entrapment, electrocution and struck-by events, and why awareness training is not operator training or familiarization.
- Describe the duties of owners, users, supervisors, operators and occupants under the OHSA, O. Reg. 213/91 ss. 143 to 149, other provincial codes and the CSA B354 standards.
- Classify MEWPs by group and type, recognize their safety features and read a specification plate for height, rated load, persons, wind, slope and wheel load.
- Prepare and review a safe use plan, including a site assessment, slope conversions, machine selection, crew briefing and triggers for reassessment.
- Describe the levels of MEWP inspection and carry out or supervise a pre-use inspection, function tests and the removal of defective machines from service.
- Explain MEWP stability, calculate platform shift on slopes and ground bearing pressure, size outrigger mats and apply boom load envelopes.
- Select and supervise fall protection on MEWPs, emphasizing travel restraint on designated anchorages, and calculate restraint lanyard limits and fall arrest clearance.
- Prevent entrapment and struck-by incidents through safe travel, secondary guarding, spotters, tail swing control and safe platform practices.
- Apply limits of approach to overhead power lines, respond to contact, estimate wind at height and wind force on panels, and control lightning, cold, heat and exhaust hazards.
- Account for all loads on the platform, control dropped objects, and plan materials handling, hot work and exiting at height within manufacturer and legal limits.
- Plan emergency lowering and rescue, including the trained ground person, ground controls, auxiliary power, manual descent, entrapment release, reporting and drills.
- Review a MEWP safe use plan as a supervisor, identify weaknesses, work the key calculations and set out a compliant revised plan.
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 37 min total · final exam
- 1 Why aerial work platforms hurt people 27 min · quiz
- 2 Law, standards and responsibilities 28 min · quiz
- 3 Types of MEWPs and their safety features 27 min · quiz
- 4 The safe use plan and site assessment 27 min · quiz
- 5 Pre-use inspection and function tests 27 min · quiz
- 6 Set-up, ground conditions and stability 29 min · quiz
- 7 Fall protection in MEWPs 27 min · quiz
- 8 Operating safely: travel, overhead hazards and entrapment 27 min · quiz
- 9 Electrical, weather and environmental hazards 28 min · quiz
- 10 Loads, tools and special applications 31 min · quiz
- 11 Emergency lowering and rescue planning 29 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a MEWP safe use plan 30 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
For supervisors and workers who use or work around scissor lifts, vertical mast lifts and boom lifts (awareness training, not operator training or familiarization): how falls, ejection, overturns, entrapment and electrocution happen, duties under the OHSA, O. Reg. 213/91 ss. 143 to 149, Alberta OHS Code s. 156 and the CSA B354.6, B354.7 and B354.8 standards, MEWP groups, types and safety features, the safe use plan and site assessment, pre-use inspection and function tests, ground bearing pressure, mats and stability, travel restraint on designated anchorages, secondary guarding and safe travel, limits of approach to power lines, wind and weather, loads, dropped objects and exiting at height, emergency lowering and rescue, and a capstone safe use plan review.