Hydraulic Safety in Construction

Course Overview

Extremely common in the construction industry, hydraulic-operated equipment presents a number of hazards to workers including fluid injection, fractures, lacerations to name a few. Besides the human toll, damage has also occurred in the past to property, the equipment itself and the environment.

​This course takes a comprehensive look at all these aspects and more while engaging the learner with more than 800 visual aids. It highly compliments an organization’s hydraulic safety program and has the potential to significantly reduce risk in this domain.

Course Topics

• Health and exposure
• Ethics and standards
• Hoses
• Stored energy
• Threads and porting
• Seals
• Safety devices
• Bleed down
• Mechanics and geometry
• Welding
• Hazard assessment
• Beyond lockout
• Environment
• Ethical choices​

Online Assessment

Students answer questions on the course material and are required to obtain a minimum passing mark of 80%. The student will have two additional opportunities to pass if required.

Completion Certificate

Following successful completion of this course, the student will have the opportunity to download and print a certificate of completion.

Bulk Purchases

To order multiple copies of this course for employees, please do give us a call directly at the number on the bottom of the page.