Migna Safety Solutions

Construction · Self-Paced · about 55 min total

Aerial Lift & MEWP Safety

Intermediate · Course MIG-CON-202

Safe operation of boom lifts and scissor lifts — the classroom half of operator training (ANSI A92 / OSHA 1926.453 & 1910).

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This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

Hands-on training required. This online course provides the required classroom/knowledge instruction only. Completing it alone does not qualify or certify you to operate or use the equipment. As OSHA requires, your employer must also provide hands-on training and evaluate you on the specific equipment in your workplace — for respirators, this includes a medical evaluation and a fit test — before you are qualified.

Aerial lifts and mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) put workers dozens of feet up on a moving machine. This course covers the MEWP classification system, the applicable OSHA and ANSI A92 requirements, pre-use inspection and function testing, stability, capacity and load charts, fall protection in the basket, electrocution avoidance near power lines, safe travel and positioning, wind and weather limits, and rescue planning. IMPORTANT: this classroom instruction does not by itself qualify you to operate. Your employer must provide machine-specific familiarization, hands-on training, and an evaluation of your operation. Issues a Migna certificate of completion for the theory portion.

What you are buying

39 min
Enforced seat time
2
Modules
11
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
34
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 39 minutes of training means it. The 57 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

Retraining due every 3 years

This interval is Migna's refresh policy, not a figure from the standard — the consensus standard for this equipment is not free to read, and the sources that discuss it disagree about whether it fixes an interval at all. We print a date because a reminder is the safe error. Your employer or insurer may set a shorter one.

Written against 27 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1910.269
  • 1910.333(c)(3)(iii)
  • 1910.67
  • 1926 Subpart L
  • 1926.1408
  • 1926.416(a)(1)
  • 1926.453
  • 1926.453(a)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(i)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(ii)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(iii)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(iv)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(ix)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(v)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(vi)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(vii)
  • 1926.453(b)(2)(viii)
  • 1926.454
  • 1926.502(d)
  • 1926.600(a)(6)
  • 29 CFR 1926.6
  • ANSI A92.2
  • ANSI/SAIA A92
  • ANSI/SAIA A92.22
  • ANSI/SAIA A92.24
  • Subpart CC
  • Subpart V

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • Distinguish the MEWP groups and types and state which standards apply to each
  • Perform the pre-use inspection and workplace inspection required before operating
  • State the fall protection required in a boom lift and in a scissor lift, and where the lanyard is attached
  • Apply the minimum approach distances to power lines and describe the other overhead and ground hazards
  • Describe safe operating practices, including load limits, travel and rescue planning

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: Machines, Standards & Inspection

    • Machine Families and the Rules That Govern Them
    • Stability, Capacity, and Tip-Over Prevention

  2. Module 2: Fall Protection, Power Lines & Safe Work

    • In the Basket and Near the Wires
    • Travel, Positioning, Weather, and Qualification