Lifting Operations and Rigging

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Video lecture: Lifting Operations and Rigging (8 minutes). Watch it before you start the lessons.

What actually rates a lift — the sling, the angle it hangs at, the hitch, the shackle and the lifting point — then the load itself, the exclusion zone around it, and the plan and signals that hold the whole operation together.

Choose a sling material from what the load will do to it, not from what is nearest
Read a sling label and explain why one sling carries several working load limits
Explain how leg angle multiplies the tension in every leg of a sling
Select between a straight, choke and basket hitch, and state what each one costs
Withdraw a damaged sling, chain or shackle against the right discard criteria
Find the centre of gravity, size an exclusion zone, and say who may stop a lift

Course Content

Module 1

Lesson 1.1 – Selecting a sling: chain, wire rope or textile
Lesson 1.2 – Reading a sling label and what the working load limit means
Lesson 1.3 – Sling angle: how the leg angle multiplies the load
Lesson 1.4 – Choosing a hitch: straight, choke and basket
Module 1 assessment

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

Final assessment

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Lifting Operations and Rigging

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Course Content

Module 1

Lesson 1.1 – Selecting a sling: chain, wire rope or textile

Lesson 1.2 – Reading a sling label and what the working load limit means

Lesson 1.3 – Sling angle: how the leg angle multiplies the load

Lesson 1.4 – Choosing a hitch: straight, choke and basket

Module 1 assessment

Module 2

Lesson 2.1 – Protecting slings from edges and corners

Lesson 2.2 – Pre-use inspection of textile slings

Lesson 2.3 – Chain sling discard criteria and safe shortening

Lesson 2.4 – Shackles: selecting, fitting and the ways they fail

Module 2 assessment

Module 3

Lesson 3.1 – Eyebolts and lifting points: the cost of off-axis loading

Lesson 3.2 – Estimating the load and finding the centre of gravity

Lesson 3.3 – Tag lines and controlling a swinging load

Lesson 3.4 – Exclusion zones and why nobody stands under a load

Module 3 assessment

Module 4

Lesson 4.1 – Slinger and signaller communication for lifting operations

Lesson 4.2 – Planning a lift: what the lift plan has to answer

Lesson 4.3 – Lifting near overhead lines and structures

Lesson 4.4 – Emergency response for a suspended or dropped load

Module 4 assessment

Final assessment

Video lecture – Lifting Operations and Rigging

Course assessment