Level 2 Onshore Mobile Crane Supervisor
Objectives
To provide field employees with the minimum required technical knowledge to be competent to plan and supervise lifting operations with mobile cranes
Audience
Personnel attending the training will have to study the mechanical lifting standard
Day 1:
• Types of Cranes
• Stability and Mechanical Principles
• Line Pull and Line Speed
• Travelling and Access
• Ground Conditions and Loadings
• Site and Environmental Hazards
• Wheels, Tracks and Outriggers
• Crane Structure and Booms / Jibs
• Limiting and Indicating Devices
• Load Charts / Range Diagrams
• Load Chart and Range Diagram Exercises
Day 2:
• Written questionnaire (based on previous day’s information)
• Questionnaire Feedback
• Hoists, Slew Ring and Sheaves
• Wire Ropes and Terminations
• Spooling and Reeving
• Headache Balls and Sheave Blocks
• Controls, Gauges and Crane Motions
• Setting Up and Levelling
• Principles of Operation
• Initial, Pre-Start Up and Pre-Op Checks
• Lifting planning (Schlumberger specific)
• Practical Crane Demonstration / Exercise
• Lift planning Exercise
Day 3:
• Written questionnaire (based on previous day’s information)
• Questionnaire Feedback
• Maintenance and Refuelling
• Periodic Inspection and Testing
• Record Keeping
• Man-Riding Operations
• Static and Dynamic Lifts
• Tandem Lifts
• Acronyms, Definitions and Terminology
• Roles and Responsibilities (Banks man and Slingers)
• Communications (Hand Signals and Two-Way Radios
• Previous Incidents and Lessons Learned
• Practical Crane Exercises:
- Supervision of a lifting operation
- Lift Plan
- Pre-operational Checks
- Permit to Work
• Written Questionnaire
