Bucket Truck Training Guelph

Bucket Truck Training Guelph - The Vehicle-Mounted Aerial Work Platform or also called bucket truck training program is designed to decrease the risk of personal injury and incident while working with or in close proximity to bucket trucks by effectively training qualified operators. An aerial lift device is any vehicle-mounted device, telescoping or articulating, or both, which is utilized to position employees to reach places which will otherwise be unreachable. Aerial lift devices are used in order to elevate personnel to above-ground work sites.

The objective of the program is to provide operators with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and training materials required to learn to operate vehicle-mounted aerial work platforms effectively and safely.

The program has two components: a hands-on session and a classroom training session. In order to become certified, participants should be successful in both parts. A full-size certificate and a wallet-size certificate will be issued upon completing the program.

Types of lifts consist of extensible boom platforms, articulating boom platforms, vertical towers, aerial ladders and aerial ladder trucks and any combination of these devices. Aerial lift devices are often constructed with metal, wood, fiberglass, reinforced plastic or other materials.

Definitions
Articulating boom platform: many hinged boom components.
Extensible boom platform: has either a telescopic boom or an extensible boom.
Platform: section of the aerial device that is designed to carry personnel.
Mobile unit: any aerial device along with its parts like vehicle and related machine.

Employers have the responsibility to make certain their worker receive correct training before operating aerial devices. Employees should make sure they likewise receive the needed training and that they do not operate lift devices if they are not authorized to do so. Workers must make certain that they are wearing the right protective equipment when working from the platform.

The course content used in the bucket truck training program consists of operating the vehicle-mounted aerial work platform, pre-shift inspections, safe operating practices, use of emergency controls, lifting capacity, and administering theory and practical tests. Operators would learn rules under the federal and local regulations.

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