Scissor Lift Operator Training in Dayton.
For the operators who run scissor lifts on your jobs, from slab scissors inside a building to rough terrain machines outside. This in-person class combines classroom work with time on the machine, so operators know how to inspect it, set it up, drive and elevate it safely, and bring it down in an emergency.
Easy to Drive, Easy to Underestimate
Scissor lifts are easy to drive, and that makes them easy to underestimate. The class covers what can tip a scissor lift, pinch someone against a structure overhead, or drop someone from the platform, so operators understand the machine they're running and the choices that keep it upright.
- Pre-use inspection and function checks, including the guardrails and gate
- Surveying the work area for slopes, holes, floor openings, overhead obstructions, and energized lines
- Stability, platform capacity, and reading the manufacturer's decals and manual
- Driving while elevated, and what the manufacturer allows
- Crushing and pinch-point hazards near structures overhead
- Emergency lowering, and hands-on operation
Scissor Lift Operator Training
Price
$275 per person.
Aerial and Scissor Lift Operator Training: $495 per person.
Class Length
Contact us for class length; we'll confirm it when we schedule your date.
Where
Taught in person in the Dayton, Ohio area, at your site or another predetermined location, and scheduled around your crew.
Training for Everyone on the Platform
The operator isn't the only person who needs to know the machine. If more than one person rides the platform, the others should know how to lower it in an emergency if the operator can't. We cover that in class, and we're glad to run a shorter session for occupants who won't operate.
General training teaches the principles; familiarization teaches the specific machine. When we train at your site, we can do both on the scissor lifts your crew will use, so each operator knows where the controls, the emergency stop, and the emergency lowering are on that make and model.
The class suits new operators, experienced operators who have never had formal training, and supervisors who need to know what good operation looks like so they can spot the opposite. Whoever attends, keep a record of who was trained, when, on which machines, and by whom, so it's ready when an owner or general contractor asks for it.
On federal work under EM 385-1-1, the 2024 manual has its own fall protection rules for scissor lifts, which it describes as self-propelled elevating work platforms whose platform can't be positioned completely beyond the base. Every scissor lift must have standard guardrails and anchorages, and the manual says not to use one without anchorages. Workers use a restraint system on every scissor lift, with lanyards short enough to keep them from climbing out of or being thrown from the platform; a self-retracting device is used only when both the lift and device manufacturers permit it; and nobody climbs on or over the guardrails (paragraph 21-8.n). We cover what that means for your crew in class.
Scissor, Aerial, or Both
If your operators run both scissor lifts and boom lifts, the combined Aerial and Scissor Lift Operator Training covers both in one class. See Aerial Lift Operator Training for the boom side.
We teach in the Dayton, Ohio area, at your site with your equipment or another predetermined location. Send us your headcount, the lifts you use, and your timing, and we'll confirm a date and the class length.
Tell Us About Your Project
Send us your scope and schedule and we'll get back to you within one business day.