objectivesWhen working with large, heavy equipment, workers, forepersons, and supervisors alike need to know how to stay safe on the job including knowing how to be aware of the job site around you while you work can minimize your risk for serious caught-between hazards. So if your road construction or construction job uses backhoes, rollers, or other similar machinery, Working Around Mobile Equipment Awareness for Construction covers the mobile equipment safety topics needed to keep you safe.
This brief introductory course teaches participants how to be safe when working with both mobile and stable machinery. To accomplish this, it provides an overview of the following topics:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety regulations
Types of mobile equipment, including backhoes, trenchers, cranes, rollers, hi-lifts, and scrapers
General safety rules
Personal responsibility for safety as a machine operator and/or bystander
descriptionAn overview of basic safety awareness principles when working on a job site in the vicinity of mobile equipment—whether it is moving or not. This distance learning course provides brief hazards and preventions.
You must score at least 70% to pass this OSHA training. You will be given up to THREE opportunities to pass the quizzes and final exam.
Failure to pass quizzes and the final exam will result in being locked out of this online training program, but the learner can repurchase and start back from the beginning.
Upon completing this Working Around Mobile Equipment Awareness For Construction and the accompanying survey, you will receive an OSHA card from the provider of this OSHA training on behalf of the Department of Labor.
Students who successfully complete the program will receive a completion card issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.
YOU MUST COMPLETE THE SURVEY AT THE END OF THIS TRAINING TO RECEIVE YOUR DOL CARD
outline1. Introduction
Working Around Mobile Equipment
What’s Wrong?
Danger!
2. General Rules
Keep Your Distance!
Moving Equipment
Maintenance and Repair
Situational Analysis
Blind Spots
Pinch Points/Scissor Points
Tires
Suspended Loads
Back Up Alarms
Lunch Time
Equipment Access
What’s Wrong?
3. Final Considerations
Beware and Stay ClearUpon completion of this course, you will learn how to utilize appropriate caution while working with or near mobile equipment, whether it is active or idle. Specifically, you will learn about operator error and how it can impact you. You will also learn to be aware of your relation to the paths of moving equipment so you can take greater responsibility for on-the-job safety.
