This comprehensive training in Lake Havasu, CA, provides participants with essential knowledge and practical skills for safely operating and working around dump trucks, forklifts, motor graders, and skid steers.

The course covers equipment orientation, work zone setup, and critical safety practices for operators and pedestrian workers. Participants will also learn key principles of vehicle operation, load securement, inspection procedures, and the use of pre-trip and pre-job checklists to ensure safe and efficient operations.

Attendees will gain experience in safe equipment operation, including traveling with loads, working on inclines, managing high-level stowage, and navigating various job site conditions. Emphasis is placed on hazard awareness, proper equipment use, and best practices for maintaining safe, productive work environments across a variety of construction and transportation settings.

Learning Objectives:

• List the 12 absolute rules operators must obey
• Use checklists to ensure equipment is operating safely
• Use site safety practices & recognize warning signs
• Identify various pieces of heavy equipment by the features of each piece of equipment
• Eliminate bad driving habits while operating heavy equipment
• Understand the use of cones, barricades, caution tape &other barriers

This course is designed for tribal DOT, municipal public works, parks, streets/roads, water, wastewater, distribution/collection and/or storm water utility workers or any other tribal entity employees who may be called on to operate heavy equipment.

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