Light Duty Picker Operator Safety Training Programs
We are celebrating 14 years of providing fundamental light duty picker crane safety training programs throughout western Canada.
Located in Calgary and Edmonton, we provide your company with On-Site picker truck training and operator certification on the following types of cranes:
The light duty picker operator safety programs we offer are for: HIAB pickers, Fassi Pickers, Copma Pickers and Ferrari Pickers as well as Broderson carry deck cranes, Spider cranes and mechanic service body cranes.
Our one-day programs are delivered to your operators at your location only, using your cranes to make sure that the operator keeps familiarity with the crane type. We do have a minimum number and required to use your crane.
Boom trucks are provincially regulated and in B.C the program we offer is only for cranes up to 5-tons in capacity and that is based on looking at the load chart, the SECOND weight shown on the left hand side (see example below):
In Alberta, operators can run a folding picker boom up to 8-tons without a winch on the boom, no boom length restrictions. If your picker truck has a boom winch, then it’s limited to 5-ton winch capacity in single part line set up.
You can find out more HERE about when to have a trade registered operator on the controls of your crane.
For Saskatchewan, operators are limited by the capacity to 5.5 tons, there is no boom length restriction but they do require companies to log the operators hours so that when the operator is able to obtain 100-hours of operating the crane, the company may then deem the operator as being competent, so it’s more involved than the other two provinces. Although it is a bit confusing on information, you can start your search in Saskatchewan HERE.
B.C has a requirement that the crane lift less than 5-tons (as shown in the sample load chart above), and that the boom does have a length restriction, you can find out more HERE as it’s quite detailed. Our program will work for you.
Operating any of the cranes mentioned above or shown in the image, a spider crane, folding boom crane or carry deck crane, even a mechanics service body crane, does require a form of training as required by both CSA and OHS in each province.
The program offers a strong emphasis on the fundamentals of safe picker operating, understanding the small things on the crane as well as the big things, load charts are often mis understood on a knuckle boom picker. Stability of the crane, configuration of the boom and use of a variety of control types from remote control to manual control of the crane. We cover the fundamentals and we show the operator how to keep as safe as possible.
By not providing a basic light duty picker operator safety training program to your operators EVEN if they say they have run that type of picker for years, opens up your company to liability in a worst case scenario.
There is also no Canada wide governing body over training programs so how do you know what you are getting? Our instructor has been trained in the USA as well as Austria at two of the largest crane manufacturers in the world, the programs there are far more in depth and took 35 days to complete. Industry in Canada has set a standard for safety training to meet CSA as well as Provincial standards. To provide a complete training program for your crane will absolutely take 7-days minimum. If you are prepared to shut down your crane and operators for that timeline, we are prepared to provide a program that will meet this timeline.
We also do not offer a rigging course at the moment in conjunction with our picker safety training, fundamentals program as well.