Program Curriculum
December 29, 2022 2022-12-29 13:27Program Curriculum
Core Curriculum will include the following topics and is required before joining a heavy equipment training:
- Learn in the classroom:
=> The construction industry
=> The benefits of a construction career
=> Typical career path for craft professionals
=> Ways to pursue a career in the construction industry.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> The benefits of safety, the cost of workplace incidents, and ways to reduce related
hazards
=> Common fall hazards and methods to prevent them
=> Recognizing and avoiding struck-by and caught-in-between hazards.
=> Common electrical hazards and how to avoid them
=> Personal protective equipment (PPE) and the hazards they reduce or eliminate.
ï‚· safety practices used with other common job-site hazards
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Solve basic arithmetic problems with whole numbers
=> Fraction types and calculating with fractions
=> Decimal numbers and calculating with them
=> Common length-measuring tools and use them to measure lengths accurately.
=> Common length, weight, volume, and temperature units in both the inch-pound and
metric systems and convert them into other comparable units
=> Angles and geometric shapes, as well as calculating their areas or volumes.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Common hand tools and state how to use them.
=> Common measurement and layout tools and describe how to use them.
=> Hand tools common to shops and job sites.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Various types of power drills and impact wrenches.
=> How to use various types of power saws.
=> The types of jobs best suited to grinders and oscillating multi-tools.
=> How to use miscellaneous power tools.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Components and features used in construction drawings and how the drawings are
different
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Types of rigging slings
=> Hardware
=> Equipment.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> The relationship between communication, listening, and speaking processes and how it
affects job performance.
=> The relationship between good reading and writing skills and how it affects job
performance.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Opportunities in the construction businesses and how to enter the construction
workforce.
=> The importance of critical thinking and how to solve problems.
=> How good social skills are applied in the construction trade and why they are important
Learn in the classroom:
=> The basic concepts of material handling
=> Common safety precautions
=> Various types of material handling equipment and how they are used
Heavy Equipment trainings:
- Learn in the classroom:
=> How operators can safely drive a forkliftÂ
=> Features of SDCB forkliftsÂ
=> Instruments and controls found on SDCB forkliftsÂ
=> The types of attachments and how they extend a forklifts capabilitiesÂ
=> The difference between scheduled maintenance and daily inspectionsÂ
=> How to safely operate and use a forklift - Hands-on practice:
=> Basic prestart inspection and routine maintenance
=> Startup, warm-up, and shutdown procedures
=> Basic maneuvers
=> Basic lifting and placing operations with a forklift.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Common uses of backhoes
=> Types and configurations of backhoes
=> Major components of a backhoe
=>Instruments and vehicle controls that are typically found in the operator’s cab of a
backhoe
=> Configurations of backhoe controls
=> Common backhoe attachments.
=> Safety guidelines for
  # operators
  # co-workers
  # the public
  # the equipment.
=> Inspection and maintenance - =>Â Â specific procedures and locations involved in prestart inspections and preventative
maintenance
=> Basic preparations for operating a backhoe
=> How to start up, warm up, and shut down a backhoe
=> how to perform basic maneuvers and operations with a backhoe.
=Common work activities that are often performed with backhoes - Hands-on practice:
=A basic prestart inspection
=> Routine maintenance
=> Starting up, warming up, and shutting down a backhoe
=> Basic maneuvers
=> Excavating an area to given specifications using a backhoe.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> The primary components of skid steers
=> Common operating controls
=> Skid steer instrumentation
=> Attachments
=> Prestart inspections and preparations for use.
=> Preventative maintenance requirements
=> Safety issues and guidelines
=> Startup, warm-up and shutdown procedures
=> Maneuvers
=> Basic operating procedures
=> Common work activities and how they are accomplished - Hands-on practice:
=> Proper prestart inspections
=> Maintenance and housekeeping
=> Startup, warm-up and shut down procedures
=> Basic maneuvers that include:
   o Grading
   o Removing stumps and boulders
   o Steering
   o Changing attachments
   o Loading a dump truck
   o Maneuvering on slopes
   o Utilizing a fork attachment for moving materials
   o Properly load and secure a skid steer for transport.
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Types and various uses of excavators
=> Major components, instrumentation and controls of a track-mounted excavator
=> Major components, instrumentation and controls of a telescoping-boom excavator
=> The braking system of a telescoping-boom excavator.
=> The numerous buckets and attachments that can be used on an excavator
=> Safety guidelines that apply to excavators for:
   o operators
   o co-workers
   o the public
   o the equipment provided
   o working around overhead power lines and underground utilities
=> Inspection and maintenance procedures for an excavator
=> Specific procedures and locations involved in prestart inspections
=> Preventative maintenance requirements
=> Basic startup, warm-up, and shutdown procedures that apply to hydraulic excavators
=> Basic operations that apply to hydraulic excavators including:
    o excavator movement
    o boom and bucket movement
    o operating on unstable ground.
=> Common work activities that apply to hydraulic excavators
=> Special attachments and activities that apply to hydraulic excavators - Hands-on practice:
=> prestart inspection
=> Routine maintenance
=> Proper startup, warm-up and shut down on a hydraulic excavator.
=> Basic maneuvers with a hydraulic excavator including:
   o moving forward
   o moving backward
   o making a pivot turn
   o making a spot turn
   o creating a 10 feet by 10 feet (3 meter by 3 meter) excavation at least 3 feet (1
meter) deep to grade
- Learn in the classroom:
=> Basic types of off-road dump trucks
=> Uses and their major components of rigid-frame dump trucks
=> Uses and major components of articulated-frame dump trucks
=> Instrumentation and control systems that are found on off-road dump trucks including:
   o gauges
   o indicators
   o warning lights
   o control systems that monitor the engine, transmission, vehicle traction, braking,
hoist, object detection systems and ground level control systems
  => safety guidelines that apply to:
     o operators
     o co-workers
     o the public
     o the equipment.
  => Prestart inspections
  => Preventative maintenance
  => Basic startup, warm-up and shutdown
  => Basic maneuvering of an off-road dump truck including:
     o driving forward
     o backing
     o climbing and descending hills
     o taking curves
  => Safe loading and dumping practices
  => Handling emergency situations
- Hands-on practice:
=> Prestart inspections
=> Preventative maintenance
=> Basic startup, warm-up, and shut down procedures
=> Basic maneuvers with an off-road dump and how to safely position it for loading
=> Safely driving the truck to a designated dumping site and safely dumping the load in the
designated spot
