Course Length: 7 hours
​Requirements: All students must wear CSA approved steel toes-boots

IN HOUSE TRAINING: (your equipment - your workplace)
Cost per student new certifications: $175 + HST 
Cost per student re-certifications: $125 + HST
Minimum Class Size: 5
** Travel charges may apply

IN-HOUSE TRAINING:
​PREFERRED METHOD

HIGHLIGHTS
Ontario’s Regulations for Industrial Establishments (RIE) defines a lifting device as “a device that is used to raise or lower any material or object and includes its rail and other supports but does not include a device to which the Elevating Devices Act applies”.

​This definition covers a wide range of equipmen including all lifting attachments on mobile equipment, log loaders, booms, hoists, blocks and tackles, winches, jacks, overhead cranes, forklifts and scissor lifts, as well as rigging accessories such as slings, chains and wire ropes.

This is a rather broad definition that can apply to numerous pieces of equipment. The type of lifting device used depends on the kind of load being handled and what needs to be done with the load. A number of basic legal requirements apply to all such equipment:
  • the maximum rated load of the lifting device must be confirmed by a competent person and marked on it, and the maximum rated load must not be exceeded;
  • the lifting device must be thoroughly examined by a competent person to determine its ability to handle its maximum rated load before its first use, as often as necessary and at least once annually;
  • the operator of the lifting device must be trained and competent.

The Occupational Health and Safety Act defines a “competent person” as one who “is qualified because of knowledge, training and experience to organize the work and its performance, is familiar with this Act and the regulations that apply to the work, and has knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace.”

Whether you work with overhead cranes, tower cranes or bucket trucks, our rigging and hoisting course will provide you with the information required to work safely as a rigger. This full day course provides students with instruction on the safe operating procedures for rigging and hoisting including legislation, roles and responsibilities, safe practices and procedures,  Hazards, capacity, hardware, inspections, communication, lifting and landing practices are some of the elements discussed.

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  • Regulations
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Hazards
  • Working Load Limit (WLL) 
  • Capacity
  • Slings and sling angles
  • Load weights
  • Hoists
  • Ropes, knots and hitches
  • Hardware
  • Wire ropes 
  • Hitches
  • Rigging tools and devices
  • Singals
  • Anchoage points
  • Maintaining safe site conditions
  • Working safety near cranes
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What we provide:
  • Manuals
  • Theory Test & Practical Evaluation
  • Laminated wallet cards
  • PDF wall certificate for ROT​ (upon request)

EMPLOYER'S RESPONSIBILITIES:
​AFTER TRAINING

Owners of cranes or similar hoisting devices must:
  • keep a permanent record of all inspections, tests, repairs, modifications and maintenance [Regulations for Construction Projects s. 152(1)]
  • prepare a log book that includes a permanent record of whichever is greater: the past 12 months or the period the cranes or hoisting devices are on the project [Construction Regulations s. 152(2)]
  • keep the log book with the cranes or hoisting devices [Construction Regulations s. 152(3)]
  • retain and make available to the constructor, on request, copies of all log books and records for the cranes or hoisting devices [Construction Regulations s. 152(4)]
  • records of training must be kept and made available upon request to Ministry of Labour Inspectors.