Signal Person and Rigger (Cal/OSHA) Online Training

This online course is the classroom part of training for workers in California who give signals to crane operators or who rig loads for crane lifts. It follows Title 8 (8 CCR 5001 to 5001.3 with Plate I, 5002, 5010.1, Article 101 sections 5040 to 5049, Group 13 sections 4880 and following, 4999, 1610 and 1504). It covers hand signals, voice and radio signals, stopping a lift, slings and hardware, hitches and angles, and rigging the load.

What you learn

• Who does what on a lift
• When a signal person is needed, and how signals work
• Hand signals: Plate I
• Voice and radio signals, and stopping a lift
• Qualifying a signal person
• Sling types, markings and rated capacity
• Hitches and sling angle
• Inspecting slings and taking them out of service
• Rigging the load: practices, weight and the fall zone
• A final lesson listing what to review with your supervisor at your company

How it works

• You take the course online, at your own pace, on a phone or a computer.
• The final exam opens after you finish the lessons.
• Each topic lesson ends with practice questions that do not count toward your score.
• The final exam has 25 questions drawn at random. You need 80 percent to pass, and you get 3 attempts.
• When you pass the final exam, you finish the online classroom part. M Squared Safety Solutions, Inc. issues your certificate of completion after it reviews your employer's signed hands-on checklist. The certificate expires 1 year after it is issued.
• This course is also available in Spanish: Señalero y aparejador (rigger) (Cal/OSHA): capacitación en línea.

The hands-on part, at your workplace

• This product is the online classroom part. Your employer evaluates your hands-on skills at your workplace with the M Squared hands-on checklist: download the checklist (PDF).
• Your employer emails the signed checklist to matt@msquaredsafety.com and monica@msquaredsafety.com. You upload nothing.
• M Squared reviews the checklist, then marks the course complete and your certificate is issued.
• Your employer picks the qualified evaluator, and the practical is done either way. M Squared also offers an evaluation at its San Clemente, California location as one option; call 949-954-6581.

Questions

Call an M Squared trainer at 949-954-6581, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific time. A trainer answers in English and Spanish.

Your employer's part

This online course does not replace the training your employer must give on your own job: site-specific training, and hands-on practice and evaluation where the rule requires them.

What this course does not do

Completing this course does not make you a qualified signal person or a qualified rigger. In California construction, section 5001.3 puts the duty on the employer of the signal person, through a third party qualified evaluator or the employer's own qualified evaluator. Your employer picks the evaluator, and the practical is done either way. This is the Cal/OSHA course, and federal OSHA's rules differ in several places. A federal OSHA version of this course is sold separately. If you work in another state, that state may have different or more stringent rules.