The LEEA (Lifting Equipment
Engineers Association) now offers
practical training courses for
engineers responsible for the test,
examination and maintenance of
overhead lifting equipment. There are
courses designed to prepare trainees
for the LEEA’s Diploma exam, and
specialist training on the maintenance
of hoists and electric overhead
travelling cranes.

Three new ‘intensive practical’
courses will cover manual and
powered lifting machines, runways
and light crane structures, and electric
overhead travelling cranes. Each
course lasts for five days and is held at
the LEEA’s Huntingdon training
facility, which has a wide range of
operational lifting equipment from a
variety of manufacturers.

Designed to complement the
Association’s online and
correspondence based learning
programme, these courses are for
trainees who have already passed the
foundation element of the LEEA
Diploma (Part 1 Entry Certificate).

They conclude with an examination.

The LEEA is also introducing a
two-day course covering basic hoist
maintenance, and a four-day course to
introduce trainees to the electrical
elements of basic hoist controls. A
course on maintenance of overhead
travelling cranes is in the pipeline.