Excavator as a crane – Transfer loads
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Awarding Body:
SQATraining course type:
Level 2 Certificate in Plant Operations (Construction). Work-place on-site assessmentNovice training course duration:
Up to 1 year to complete all NVQ unitsCard options:
5-year NPORS CSCS competent operator blue card. 5-year CPCS CSCS competent operator blue cardMinimum age:
16Restrictions:
Workplace experience using an excavator for lifting duties. CITB test for operatives with in 24 monthsInstructor:
Bertie Tupper & Tuppco assessors
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The candidate will be assessed on NVQ units relating to health and safety and machinery operation by means of
- Observation
- Questions
- Demonstrations
- Professional discussion
- Witness testimonies
Assessment criteria
Mandatory core NVQ units:
- Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Conforming to productive working practices in the workplace
- Preparing and operating excavator cranes to lift and transfer loads in the workplace
Venue and equipment requirements
- Suitable and safe area to operate excavator
- Varying terrain and slopes
- A range of loads to be lifted and moved
- Area to lift and lower loads out of sight of operator
- Suitable and safe area to complete paperwork
- Suitable welfare facilities
- 360° Excavator with lifting eye and SWL
- Operators’ manual
- Risk assessment completed
- In date thorough test examination report for the machine
PPE Requirements
- Suitable head protection
- Suitable eye protection
- Suitable work clothes including wet weather
- Gloves
- Suitable work boots including steel toe protection
- High Viz
On-site NVQ assessments delivered
Southwest – Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Avon, Somerset, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Southeast – Oxfordshire, Kent, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex
Midlands – Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire
East Anglia – Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
Aylesbury, Banbury, Basingstoke, Bath, Bedford, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cirencester, Cheltenham, Coventry, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hungerford, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Northampton, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Reading, Salisbury, Southampton, Stroud, Swindon, Taunton, Warwick, Winchester, Witney, Worcester, Yeovil
What is an excavator as a crane?
Although excavators are primarily used for standard earthmoving and construction tasks, they can also be used within reason for lifting jobs. Operators can use an excavator as a crane if they are required to lift anything from concrete and metal pipes to other construction materials.