Description
Overview
Learning Objective 1 – Successful completion of this module prepares trainees to: Describe the prestart procedures for heavy equipment.
- Describe how to safely mount a vehicle.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for equipment, attachments, and tires.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for power trains.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for hydraulic systems.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for electrical systems.
Learning Objective 2 – Successful completion of this module prepares trainees to: Describe the procedures for starting, operating, and shutting down heavy equipment.
- Describe how to perform initial checks.
- Describe basic operating procedures for the various items of equipment.
- Explain how to properly shut down and secure equipment.
Performance Tasks
Perform basic prestart inspection, startup, operational movement, and shutdown for 3 of the 13 listed pieces of heavy equipment:
- Utility tractors
- Dozers
- Loaders
- Backhoes
- Excavators
- Compaction equipment
- Motor graders
- Scrapers
- On-road dump trucks
- Off-road dump trucks
- Forklifts
- Skid steers
- Trenchers
