New lifting equipment training course
February 1st 2011 Lifting Equipment specialist, Demag
Cranes & Components, has
launched a new training course
aimed at all users of lifting
equipment, as well as those involved
in the repair, maintenance and
service of such plant.
The course, which is entitled 'Safe
Use of Lifting Tackle and Operation
of Overhead Gantry Cranes', is
designed to improve workplace safety
and help employers meet their
obligations under workplace
legislation, including the
Health & Safety at Work
Act 1974 (HASAW),
PUWER 1998 and LOLER
1998.
Under section 2 of
HASAW, employers are
required to provide "information,
instruction, training and supervision
as is necessary to ensure, so far as is
reasonably practicable, the health and
safety at work of his employees", with
stiff penalties for non-compliance.
The training regime combines
theoretical and practical elements. More articles from Demag Cranes & Components Ltd: | 
