| Practical programme |
| Operating exercises |
- Use of controls, operating aids and monitoring instruments
- Executions of movements one by one, with no load. then loaded
- Combination of two movements with no load, then loaded
- Reduction of load swinging
- Combination of three or four movements
- Site travelling. no load., then loaded (as appropriate)
- Crane preparation and travel by road
- Exercises with targets to develop the faculties of
- the evaluation of distances in space
- the accuracy of load picking-up and placing
- the speed of travel in space
- the search for optimal time of handling cycle
- Operation when the load is out of the driver’s sight (with signalman or with radio communication)
- Driving various cranes of the same family
- Operation with interference from a fixed obstacle or from another crane
- Driving from the ground for types of crane where this is applicable
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| Handling exercises (load picking-up and placing) |
- Handling of common loads (crates, containers, pallets, skips, etc.)
- Handling of
- long and flexible loads
- high loads
- loads with large horizontal area
- loads with large vertical area
- Handling of loads with specific attachments
- Exercises in load slinging and guidance
- Communication exercises by hand signals and radio
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| Exercises In use, tests, maintenance and emergency situations |
- Jacking and start-up of the crane and checking the environment
- Start-up and shut-down procedures
- Regular inspections (brakes, safety devices and load state monitor)
- Change in reeving
- Change of lifting attachments
- Lubrication and level checks
- Safe escape
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