Protect your team with MEWPs: Safe Operation of Boom Lifts training focused on MEWP types, operating hazards, and practical risk controls.
MEWPs: Safe Operation of Boom Lifts prepares employees to recognize relevant risks, responsibilities, and safe work expectations. Key outcomes include the ability to spot general operating procedures for boom lifts, spot particular hazards and precautions, and summarize the different types of boom lifts. The material also helps learners explain inspection procedures before boom lift use. Practical examples connect the subject to routine tasks, expected procedures, and decisions employees may need to make on the job. Learners finish with a clearer understanding of what to look for, how to respond, and when to raise a concern or seek additional guidance.
Boom lift safety training is for anyone who operates or works from a boom lift. That includes construction crews, maintenance technicians and other workers doing jobs in hard-to-reach places. Supervisors who plan elevated work also benefit. The 12-minute video is in English, with Spanish and French closed captions.
In construction, boom lifts fall under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.453, the aerial lift standard. General industry uses 29 CFR 1910.67 for vehicle-mounted work platforms. ANSI A92 standards for mobile elevating work platforms add design, inspection and training expectations. Only authorized persons may operate an aerial lift.
Yes, boom lift occupants need fall protection. OSHA requires each worker in an aerial lift to wear a harness and lanyard. The lanyard must attach to the boom or basket, never to a nearby pole or structure. A properly anchored fall arrest system keeps a worker from being thrown from the platform.
A boom lift must stay at least 10 feet from energized overhead lines rated 50 kV or less. The required clearance grows as voltage increases. Electrocution is among the deadliest boom lift hazards, so operators should survey the work area for overhead lines before raising the platform.
A boom lift pre-start inspection should confirm fluid levels, tires and wheels, steering, brakes, controls, horns, alarms, batteries and emergency systems before each shift. The operator should also walk the work area for overhead lines, debris, holes and uneven ground. A lift with any defect should stay out of service until repaired.
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