Powered Mobile Equipment Operator Course

This course is intended for Powered Mobile Equipment operators. It provides the minimum training requirements to ensure operators have the basic knowledge and skills required for the safe operation of their equipment and its attachments. The course can be applied to most Powered Mobile Equipment (PME) but focuses on loaders, lift trucks (classes 1,2,3,4,5, 7, including variable reach), excavators, motor graders, and crawler dozers.

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Course Description

  • This course follows the guidelines and standards referenced in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Occupational Health and Safety Code.

  • The course takes into consideration the guidelines and principles of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS).

  • The course takes into consideration the Canadian Standards Association (CAN3- B354.7 & B354.8).

  • The course provides the minimum requirements for the training of operators for Powered Mobile Equipment (PME) and is intended to supplement a company’s larger Health & Safety Management System.

Course Content

  • The student should have an awareness of the various legislation, regulations, and standards that pertain to powered mobile equipment.

  • The student should understand the roles and responsibilities of employers and employees as they relate to the operation of PME.

  • The student should understand the importance of PME inspections and how to conduct the inspections safely.

  • The student should be familiar with safe operating procedures for PME.

  • The student should be familiar with different types of PME, their basic structural components, basic function, potential hazards while operating PME and how to control those hazards.

  • The student should have a basic understanding of the proper use of PME attachments and potential hazards associated with PME attachments.

  • The student should have a basic understanding of the operation of the most common PME: front end loader, skid steer loader, lift trucks, variable reach lift truck, excavator, motor grader, and bulldozer.

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