Scissor Lift Online Training

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$79.00

Online Scissor Lift Training, designed by trainers with 15+ years of onsite training experience. The estimated time for this training is 120 – 150 min. Covers these groups and types of MEWPs: (A3).

  • OSHA-Authorized: OSHA-authorized courses that are reviewed yearly & updated to meet the latest standards.
  • Instant Access: After purchasing, you'll have immediate access to the online course.
  • Printable Certificates: Upon completion, you will receive a printable certificate and OSHA wallet card.
  • For Businesses: We offer company accounts and bulk discounts.


Description

What’s in the Scissor Lift Course?

Our Scissor Lift Safety Training course is regulation aligned, and our online version fulfills classroom training requirements. Each class contains sections on anatomy, stability, operations, hazards, and more. This presentation includes intermittent practice quiz questions to prepare for the final written exam included with the course. In addition to the written exam, this course also includes a checklist for employers to use when administering a practical exam.

Estimated Training Length: Because everyone learns and progresses at different speeds, the amount of time you spend taking this training will vary. However, the estimated time for this training is 120 – 150 min.

Intended Audience:

  • Employees
  • Supervisors

OSHA Requirements: This course meets the following OSHA Requirements:

  • OSH ACT 1970
  • 1910 Subpart F – Powered Platforms, Man lifts, Vehicle Mounted Work Platforms
  • 1910.29 – Manually Propelled Mobile Ladder Stands and Scaffolds (Towers)
  • 1910.67 – Vehicle Mounted Elevating and Rotating Work Platforms
  • 1910.333 – Selection and Use of Work Practices Shipyards
  • 1926.21 – Safety Training and Education
  • 1926.451 – General Requirements
  • 1926.452 – Additional Requirements to Specific Types of Scaffolds
  • 1926.453 – Scissor Lifts
  • 1926.454 – Training Requirements
  • 1926.501, 502 – Duty to have Fall Protection
  • 1926.556 – Scissor Lifts


Why Take Our Scissor Lift Training Online, Covers these groups and types of MEWPs: (A3)

Our online training course provides a substantial, thorough, and effective way to learn how to work safely. We’ve been providing industry-specific safety training solutions for individuals, safety managers, and business owners for over 15 years.

The online course meets the classroom requirement for occupational safety training. It also includes a proficiency checklist that employers can use to perform a practical evaluation, in accordance with standards and regulations.

We have fine-tuned this training to provide you with the best experience possible. Our robust training approach gives an interactive experience that helps learners retain information and apply it on the job site, preventing costly accidents and fines. Safety training is an investment. That is why hundreds of companies and individuals all over the world trust the Hard Hat Training Series for their online training needs.

Why Buy Our Scissor Lift Safety Training Online Course?

  • Complete Training: First and foremost our goal is to keep you safe and save you money. Don't risk getting expensive OSHA fines because you settled for a sub-par training program that didn't cover safety topics in depth. Train using a program that helps you retain what is learned so that it is put into practice on job sites.
  • Cost-Effective: Hiring a trainer to come on-site can be expensive. In contrast, our online curriculum lowers costs while still providing a professional training experience.
  • Records Tracking System: We offer an easy-to-use management system so that if you have multiple students who are receiving the training you can have access to all records, all-terrain certificates, observation guides and more! (contact us if you would like us to quickly create a company account for you)
  • Train Your Way: You can use this online training program for new hire training, refresher training or train remotely. Access it from anywhere and work on your schedule.
  • Interactive Learning: Special reminders and quiz questions throughout the course prep students for the final exam so that it is passed the first time.
  • Corporate License: Do you want to host this course on your own server? Contact us about obtaining broadcasting rights for this and any of our other online courses.


Scissor Lift Certification

What Is a Mobile Elevated Work Platform?

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently updated their aerial lift terminology, which has affected how they interpret aerial lifts. ANSI has replaced the term aerial lift with Mobile Elevated Work Platform, or MEWP. According to ANSI, a MEWP is any motorized work platform that is designed to assist an employee in safely accomplishing an at-height task.

What Is an Aerial Lift?

Aerial lifts are defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as working platforms mounted on vehicles that have the ability to move vertically or horizontally. Aerial lifts can also entirely rotate around a vertical axis in some cases. People are often confused about scissor lifts due to the stricter qualifications surrounding the term aerial lifts.

Where Does the Scissor Lift Fit?

It is essential to be aware that OSHA does not consider a scissor lift an aerial lift. In fact, OSHA defines a scissor lift as a portable scaffold with a vertically raised work platform. This means that scissor lifts are covered by OSHA’s scaffolding guidelines and requirements.

On the other hand, scissor lifts are classified as a Mobile Elevated Work Platform under ANSI. This means that ANSI’s standards and regulations for MEWPs will include scissor lifts.

Your employer will make the ultimate decision in deciding which standards your workplace will adhere to. If you are unsure of which regulations you are supposed to follow, reach out to your designated supervisor or manager for more information.

What Is a Scissor Lift?

Now that you have a basic understanding of where the scissor lift fits in regards to safety regulations, we will discuss what a scissor lift really is.

Scissor lifts are popular for manufacturing and industrial operations because they have broad platforms that can accommodate both employees and materials. They provide a safe and dependable environment for workers to carry out any at-height tasks.

What makes the scissor lift an essential tool is its ability to extend up and then collapse and become compact enough to be stored away, making it a true competitor to the traditional ladder.

What Are Scissor Lifts Used For?

Scissor lifts are preferable to boom lifts and other types of aerial platforms when it comes to certain tasks. They are suitable for inside tasks since they are lightweight and easy to operate, especially if the project simply requires up-and-down mobility.

Scissor lifts can work outside on uneven or sloped terrain. A rough terrain scissor lift is designed to work on rough or uneven surfaces in order to safely raise workers and materials in ways that a ladder could not. Here are some other common jobs that scissor lifts are used for:

  • Indoor maintenance where ceilings are higher
  • Warehouse organization, management, and general maintenance where accessing tall shelves needs to be done safely
  • Sign maintenance where a larger platform is needed for safe work
  • Working on sloped surfaces or uneven terrain
  • Working in tight, outdoor spaces where an up-down lifting motion is needed

OSHA Requirements for Scissor Lifts

Employers must analyze the worksite to identify any potential hazards before selecting the proper equipment for the task. Employers who use scissor lifts must examine and implement effective fall safety, stability, and position controls. Employers are also responsible for developing and implementing an accident prevention program.

Safe scissor lift operations include maintaining the equipment properly, following the manufacturer’s instructions, adhering to the rules and procedures that are provided through the required safety training, and always using the proper personal protective equipment (PPE).

Before operating a scissor lift, OSHA requires that you receive sufficient safety training. Here at Hard Hat Construction Safety Training, our scissor lift course includes all you need to know about operating a scissor lift safely. All of the necessary standards are thoroughly covered as well. Among the required safety topics are:

  • How to perform daily checks of the scissor lift to ensure it is in good working order and free of wear and damage.
  • How to use and wear PPE, which may include a hard hat and a safety harness.
  • How to connect fall protection to an appropriate anchor point on the work platform.
  • Employees are not permitted to use a ladder to climb higher on the work platform, nor are they permitted to use the guardrails as a ladder to step up to a higher position on the scissor lift.
  • Employees are not permitted to lean over the guardrails, as this may jeopardize the scissor lift’s stability.
  • Employees are not permitted to utilize the ground controls unless authorized by the employee in the bucket or in the event of an emergency.

Accident Prevention Program

An accident prevention program (APP) is a document that is updated as needed to address newly identified hazards and safety concerns. The program’s aspects are extensive, in-depth, and cover a wide range of occupational health and safety issues. It is intended to decrease workplace accidents and injuries.

For an APP regarding scissor lift operations, there should be four different parts. These four parts are as follows:

Part 1: Implement & Maintain an APP

Employees are required by OSHA to establish and maintain an accident prevention program that supports alignment with regulations. They do not directly state that the program must be written, but it is far more difficult to demonstrate the existence of an acceptable program if it is not documented.

Part 2: Frequent & Consistent Inspections

A competent person plays a crucial role in ensuring construction site safety. OSHA requires a process for frequent and regular inspections to be completed by a competent person to ensure the job site, materials, and equipment are safe and functional. The process that is implemented is also required to be included in the APP.

Part 3: aligned Machinery, Tools, & Equipment

Everything that is utilized on a jobsite must meet safety standards. If it is not aligned, it may not be used. Regulations require your employer to remove them from service using any of the following methods:

  • Tagging them out
  • Physical locking to render them inoperable
  • Removing them from the workplace

Part 4: Training & Experience

OSHA requires that only employees who have had proper training or experience operate machinery or equipment. This training requirement is one of the most commonly disregarded laws in the construction industry. Every employee’s training and/or experience should be documented.

How To Become a Scissor Lift Operator?

Learning how to use a scissor lift is simpler than you would think. Despite this, there are still several requirements you must meet before you will be able to operate one. As stated previously, scissor lift operators are required by OSHA to successfully complete a scissor lift safety training course that will demonstrate that they are capable of operating the lift in a safe and reliable way.

Once the training course is completed, employees must demonstrate to their employer, or a designated supervisor, what they have learned and that they are able to operate the scissor lift safely and efficiently.

Scissor Lift Certification

Every employer with scissor lift operators is required by law to give OSHA Aligned training, instruction, and hands-on evaluation to guarantee every employee is up to date on the newest OSHA safety regulations and can operate scissor lifts efficiently.

Once an employee receives their certification, the certification is valid for three years after the issue date. Once the three years is up, the employee will need to take a refresher course or retake a scissor lift safety training course.

Why Do I Need a Safety Training Course?

Every year, many workers are injured or killed while using scissor lifts. Falls from the elevated platform, objects falling from the lifts, tipovers, ejections from the lift platform, structural failures and collapses, electric shock, entanglement dangers, contact with objects, and contact with ceilings and other overhead objects are all potential hazards.

Our courses demonstrate the functionality and safety of scissor lifts. The goal of this course is to increase safety for operators and everyone else on the job site. Begin this essential training right away!

What’s in Our Scissor Lift Safety Training?

Our Scissor Lift Safety Training course is regulation aligned, and our online version fulfills classroom training requirements. Each class contains sections on anatomy, stability, operations, hazards, and more. This presentation includes intermittent practice quiz questions that will help you to prepare for the final written exam that is included with the course when you complete it. In addition to the written exam, this course also includes a checklist for employers to use when administering a practical exam.

Why Take Our Scissor Lift Course?

Our scissor lift online training course provides a substantial, thorough, and effective way to learn how to work safely. We’ve been providing industry-specific safety training solutions for individuals, safety managers, and business owners for over 15 years.

The scissor lift online course meets the classroom requirement for occupational safety training. It also includes a proficiency checklist that employers can use to perform a practical evaluation, in accordance with standards and regulations.

We have fine-tuned this scissor lift training to provide you with the best experience possible. Our robust training approach gives an interactive experience that helps learners retain information and apply it on the job site, preventing costly accidents and fines. Safety training is an investment. That is why hundreds of companies and individuals all over the world trust the Hard Hat Training Series for their online training needs.

For more information check out our related articles What are the most common uses and hazards of a scissor lift? and Do you need to wear a harness on a scissor lift?

Other Training Options:

We offer two other types of training for this course. The other training types are DIY training kits and a train the trainer certification course. An identical final exam and OSHA-aligned safety training certificate applies, no matter which of the three format options you choose below.


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Our online trainings are great for those who want to learn at their own pace and on their own time. Online trainings can be completed from any location, eliminating the need for expensive seminars.

Employers can assign employees specific trainings and keep track of their progress and exam scores. We also offer group trainings, company accounts, and even bulk discounts for businesses.

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Training Kit

Our kits are the perfect resource for those who want the freedom of training employees themselves. Unlike traditional trainings that are taken once, the kit offers a complete initial training as well as activities and materials to train employees long after they’ve been certified.

These materials include practical evaluations, exams, toolbox trainings, accident profiles, ect.

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Train the Trainer

Train-the-trainer courses allow employers to take full control of the training process. Employees who take these courses are fully certified to use the training kit and train others.

This means that employers can hold training seminars and courses without the need for third-party trainers. We will also include a training presentation and materials to train others.

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Save Big By Buying Course Seats (Credits) In Bulk!

When you purchase (credits) you are essentially buying seats in a virtual classroom. You may assign any employee(s) to any class(es) at any time until those (seats) have all been assigned.

Whether you are looking to save on a few guys or your whole crew, we make it affordable for everyone to get safety training. These discounts are available on all of our online trainings! Look below to see the breakdown of what you can save when you buy your course seats (credits) in bulk with Safety Provisions.

Online Safety Training FAQs

What does each online class cover?

Generally speaking, each course covers the following: 1. Overview of the Course/Introduction to the Equipment 2. Anatomy, including pre-shift inspections 3. Stability Principles 4. Common Hazards/Accident Profiles 5. Safe Operation 6. Rigging and Hand Signals (for crane courses only).

How long is the course?

Trainees go at their own pace, but in general each class (including the exam) takes anywhere from 2 to 2.5 hours. We recommend planning for two or more so you don’t end up rushing through the exam.

Are these courses OSHA-aligned?

All of our Hard Hat Training online courses were built and continue to be updated by our trainers and inspectors using OSHA and ANSI guidelines. But it is important to understand that by OSHA-aligned, we mean it follows to the best of our ability the best practices and safety principles put forth by OSHA. In an online format, it is not possible to cover every code for every situation or hazard across every industry. For this reason, our safety training solutions are tools to further knowledge and help employers train and/or certify their crew. But just because a course or program is OSHA-aligned it does not necessarily mean a company as a whole will be aligned or avoid citation if OSHA were to audit them. There is so much more that goes into collective company alignment with OSHA. For example, workers need to be observed applying in the field what they learned in the classroom. This observation/practical exam should be done by trainers, supervisors, or other designated competent persons. Whether you use our training kits or online courses, we provide guides to help employers do this. Other things that need to be done for ultimate alignment may include but are not limited to: addressing with your crew any gaps in the training or additional hazards or principles specific to your work situation; creating, training on, and enforcing and abiding by written safety programs (also known as plans or procedures); and performing regular inspections and risk assessments.

Are the e-learning classes up-to-date with OSHA standards?

Yes, all of our Hard Hat Training online courses are up-to-date with the latest OSHA standards. As standards change, we make changes to the courses. If you purchase any of our online courses outright, though, it will then be your responsibility to update the course in accordance with any changes to the standard.

Does this course certify or qualify me?

There is a lot of confusion among operators and even companies about what it means to be certified or qualified. Simply put, no, a course does not certify anyone, only an employer does. Or, in other words, because it is the employer’s responsibility to make sure an employee is properly trained, it is also his or her responsibility to say when the employee is “certified,” “qualified,” or “competent.” The online courses, like our training kits on CD or USB Drive or even live training via a 3rd party, is just a tool to help them in doing so.

According to OSHA, all operators of heavy equipment must receive operator training. Proper training must include a classroom portion including a written exam, as well as a practical hands-on portion/exam wherein the operator is observed operating the machine. The online course satisfies the required classroom portion of the training. Upon completion of the course and written exam, the safety administrator of the company will receive a checklist which can be used to observe the trainee on the machine. When done successfully, the administrator signs the bottom of the form. At this point, unless further training is required by your employer, you have done everything required by OSHA to be considered by your employer as “certified,” “qualified,” or “competent.”

If I pass this class and exam can I take my certification and get a job anywhere?

See “Does this course certify me?” This will depend on your employer. Remember, it is their responsibility to see that you are trained and if there is ever an accident, it is they who will have to prove to OSHA that they trained you sufficiently. Because of this, while some smaller businesses may simply accept your certificate and a copy of your test, more often than not they will require you to go through their own training program. This is their right to do so. It is their further responsibility to train you in accordance with the job, site, equipment, etc. Having said that, we have fielded many calls from potential employers who wanted to learn more about the classroom portion of the training we offered. After hearing our explanation, they accepted the online class as satisfying the classroom portion of the required training and proceeded to do their own practical.

How long is the training good for?

OSHA standards dictate that safety certification needs to be completed at least once every three years. Since no online course can provide “certification,” these courses will combine with your onsite practical training to fulfill OSHA’s requirements for up to three years. Having said that, refresher training is required sooner if an employee changes sites or jobs, is asked to operate a different type of the equipment, is involved in a near-miss or accident, or is observed operating the machine in a dangerous manner.

Will I get a certificate?

Yes, upon successful completion of the course and exam, you will have immediate electronic access to your test, a certificate, and a checklist you can use for the practical hands-on portion of the training. Simply print them off.

How many people can use this course? Can I play it for several employees at the same time?

When a course is assigned to an employee, only that employee can take the course. There are many reasons for this, but most importantly the course is designed to train that one employee per OSHA regulations. Also, there is a final written exam at the end that will be linked to the trainee assigned. OSHA requires proof of training and if multiple people were to sit in on that one course, they would not get credit for taking it.

Can I customize the classes?

Your business’s learning portal can be completely customized for your employees including colors and logo. Additionally, if you purchase our courses outright to be used on your own company LMS (learning management system), you also get the right to rebuild them and customize them to meet your own needs. If you have Adobe Captivate, which we use to build our courses, customization is even easier.

Are SCORM/Tin Can options available for use on our own company LMS?

All of our online courses are designed to be SCORM-compatible and can be easily uploaded to your company’s current SCORM-friendly LMS. You can license their use annually or purchase them outright. Licensing or purchasing them outright does not, however, give you the right to resell or distribute our courses to parties other than those whom you are training.

If we buy or license the eLearning courses for use on our own LMS, can you customize them for us?

Yes, we have done and continue to do this for clients. Pricing depends on the extent of customization requested. Please contact us for a quote.

Can I resell these trainings?

We do have resale options available. Contact us regarding resale opportunities.

How do I Look Up My OSHA Alignment Safety Certification?

So, you have already purchased a course from us, taken the online training, and passed the certifaction exam with flying colors. Now what? Most people want to print off a copy of thier OSHA Alignment Safety Certification and keep it for your records. Learn how to do that.

4 reviews for Scissor Lift Online Training

  1. John R.

    it has all the needed information for safe operations

    • Hard Hat Training

      Thanks, John. We do spend a lot of time on our research, so we are happy that you found it covered everything you needed for maintaining your operations.

  2. Trevor P.

    Easy to understand.

    • Hard Hat Training

      Thank you, Trevor, for your great review! We’re glad that you found the course so understandable and easy to follow.

  3. Andy G.

    very informative

    • Hard Hat Training (verified owner)

      What an incredible review, Andy! Thank you so much! We try to keep our trainings informative as well as interactive. We are glad to know that you have found this to be the case. Thank you again!

  4. Jose Antonio Loyo

    Me gusto mucho el curso. Quiero aprender más. Espero poder tomar más cursos con ustedes. Gracias

    • Hard Hat Training (verified owner)

      Hola Jose, estamos muy felices que ha tenido una buna experiencia con el curso. Gracias por escoger Hard Hat Training!

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How Does Online Training Work?

Each employee or individual takes the online course at their own pace. Quiz questions are included along the way to prepare for the final exam (Employers or managers may assign employees to specific safety courses). Quiz questions are included along the way to prepare for the final exam.

Instant access to your safety certification and wallet card is granted when the online course is completed and the subsequent online exam is passed. Once the online exam is passed, administer the practical exam. We suggest correcting any mistakes and having the trainee initial the edit on the practical exam sheet. Congratulations! You have finished your online safety training course.

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