Crane and Lifting Safety

(For Rigger and Operator)

 Training Outline
⚫ Introduction
⚫ Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
⚫ Manual Lifting Safe Practices
⚫ Crane Lifting Safe Practices
⚫ Lifting Equipments Safe Practices
⚫ Lifting Near Power Line
⚫ Rigging and Slinging
⚫ Lifting Equipments
⚫ Wear & Damage of Rigging Equipments
⚫ Static Line
⚫ Pipe Rigging Incident-1
⚫ Pipe Rigging Incident-2

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 Introduction
⚫ Lifting is very common in the construction
industry as a method for material transfer.
Through mechanical means such cranes,
lifting equipment and manual handling.
⚫ The risk of injury can be reduced through
training and application of correct lifting &
handling techniques.

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 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs)
worn by Riggers

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 Manual Lifting Safe Practices
Improper manual lifting can result in
a variety of occupational injuries, i.e.
musculoskeletal injuries, cumulative
trauma disorders hernia, and most
common – back injuries which can
even lead to a permanent partial or
total disability. Avoidance of these
expensive and most often
debilitating injuries requires
maximum awareness on proper
body mechanics and correct lifting
techniques.

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 Manual Lifting Safe Practices

Basic points in proper lift:

• Firm grip
• Back straight
• Arms & load close to the body
• Feet apart
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 Manual Lifting Safe Practices

Two – Man Carry Two – Man Pole Lift

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

Keep all parts of your body

out from the load
Keep an eye on the load

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices
Pay attention to the boom sections . . they should be
kept EQUAL. Unequal boom give NO structural stability.

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

Pay attention to
the remaining
rope between
the hoist block
and boom tip,
while raising the
load. . . Prevent
two-blocking !

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

When visibility is Poor. .

NO Lifting! No
Crane Work!

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 Crane Lifting Safe Practices

Signal man

Signal man
should
position in full
view of the
operator!

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 Lifting Equipments Safe Practices

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 Lifting Equipments Safe Practices

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 Lifting Equipments Safe Practices

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 Lifting Equipments Safe Practices

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 Lifting Near Power Line

Never take chance,

know and observe
Absolute Limit of
Approach!

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 Lifting Near Power Line
➢Use signalman near power line!

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 Rigging and Slinging
Do not
force OK
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eye down
close to
the load

NO
Extra
Point of
Localized
tangency
Stress
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 Rigging and Slinging
Lifting Angles (in between legs):
60O Lifting
60O – Safest (most recommended) Angle
40O – Minimum
90O - Maximum
If L is greater
than S, then
sling angle is 60o
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60o S
S 60o

16 feet

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 Rigging and Slinging

Single Basket Hitch

with Inclined legs
Single Basket Hitch

Single Chocker Hitch

Single Vertical Hitch

Or Straight pull

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 Rigging and Slinging
➢The tension on sling leg depends on its angle to the load and
the weight of the load to be lifted

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 Rigging and Slinging

➢When a multi leg sling

is used with the sling
legs at an angle, the
load (tension) in the
individual slings will
increase as the angle
between the legs
becomes greater

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 Rigging and Slinging

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 Lifting Equipments

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 Lifting Equipments

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 Lifting Equipments

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Wear & Damage of Rigging
Equipment

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 Static Line

Double wrap
or w/ a stable
Stopper
immediately
below the rope
(e.g. pair of
beam clamp)

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 1

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 1

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 1

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 2

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 2

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 2

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 Pipe Rigging Incident - 2

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 Summary
Prior to any lifting operation taking place the following
must be performed
⚫ Assess the lifting task to identify and reduce the risk that
may be inherent in the operation
⚫ Where possible, eliminate the need to carry out the
manual handing operation and resort to mechanical lifting
operation
⚫ Where risk is identified, implement mitigation measure to
reduce the risk
⚫ Consideration must be given to weight of the load,
location of lifting area, equipments to be use and
personnel competency

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