Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
Ensure lifting operations are properly planned, supervised and carried out safely with suitable equipment.
How to prepare for SSSTS
Connect each duty and hazard to the supervisor's workface sequence: check the task and RAMS, brief the team, establish controls, observe and intervene, then report and learn.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Every lifting operation requires planning proportionate to complexity by a competent person.
Exam cue: Match the lift plan to the actual crane or machine configuration and ground.
Concept 2
Load weight and centre, configuration, accessories, capacity, ground, weather, route and exclusion affect the plan.
Exam cue: Verify accessories, angles, capacity and connection before lifting.
Concept 3
Roles and signals must be clear, and equipment needs correct identification, inspection and thorough-examination status.
Exam cue: Stop for loss of communication, encroachment or changing conditions.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating a routine lift as automatically risk free.
Guardrail: Do not use a signature, course certificate or verbal instruction as a substitute for a missing competent plan or physical control.
Allowing anyone beneath a suspended load.
Guardrail: Do not use a signature, course certificate or verbal instruction as a substitute for a missing competent plan or physical control.
Using the machine's rated capacity without configuration checks.
Guardrail: Do not use a signature, course certificate or verbal instruction as a substitute for a missing competent plan or physical control.
Memory anchors
Plan, Supervise, Perform
LOLER's core safe-lifting sequence.
Load, Lift, Landing
Know the item, route and destination.
Ground Before Air
Verify support and stability first.
No One Under
Maintain the suspended-load exclusion zone.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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