Basic Craning Gantry
Key Information
Duration:Half Day (4 Hours)
Maximum Attendees: 6
Training available at our local training centre or your own workplace
Price (excl GST)
$270 Per Person
Get hands-on with gantry cranes safely and confidently.
Overview
This entry-level course provides a practical introduction to using gantry cranes in the workplace. It’s designed for workers new to craning who need to understand safe operation before completing a formal certification. Participants will learn how to identify crane components, use basic controls, and follow essential safety procedures for lifting and moving loads.
By the end of the course, learners will be able to safely perform basic lifts under supervision and apply sound judgement around load handling, communication, and hazard awareness. This course helps build confidence and competence before progressing to formal, unit-standard-based crane operator training.
Please bring along your ID on training day - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Identify basic gantry crane components, functions, and controls relevant to safe operation.
- Demonstrate safe lifting and load-handling techniques under supervision, following workplace procedures.
- Apply basic safety and communication practices to maintain control and prevent incidents during crane operations.
Prerequisites:
30072 - Demonstrate and apply knowledge of slinging regular loads safely
Or
3789 - Sling varied regular loads and safely direct a crane during crane operations.
Entry Criteria:
All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
Looking for the Qual?
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Overhead Gantry Crane Initial and Refresher
Gain the skills needed to operate a radio remote or pendant controlled gantry crane and knowledge of the crane industry as a whole. Unit standard covered: 3800
