Heavy Equipment Safety Training

Importance of Heavy Equipment Safety Training in the Workplace

Heavy equipment moves massive weight with limited visibility, and the most serious incidents involve workers on foot being struck, run over or caught between a machine and another object, along with rollovers and contact with overhead power lines. Safe operation depends on both the operator and the people working around the machine. That’s why our heavy equipment training videos cover each machine twice: a “How They Work and Their Hazards” course explains how the equipment operates and the hazards of working around it, and an “Operating and Spotting” course covers safe operation and how to act as a spotter.

The series includes backhoes, excavators, front-end loaders, skid steers and dump trucks, with matching operating courses such as Operating and Spotting for Excavators. For elevated work, Aerial Lifts: Types of Lifts and Their Hazards and Scissor Lifts are designed around OSHA’s training requirements for mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs), and Bucket Truck Safety covers working from a boom. Material-moving equipment is covered on our forklift safety courses page, and crane work on our crane and rigging safety courses page.

The aerial and scissor lift, forklift and pallet truck courses are available in English and Spanish, and the earthmoving equipment courses are in English. Train operators and ground crews through Unlimited Interactive Online Training, review them before a project with Unlimited Safety Video Streaming, or bring safety DVDs and USBs to the job trailer.