Training Resources for Safe Operation of Specialized Equipment
Specialized Equipment Resources (continued)
Trailers
Health and Safety Code Handbook Reference
- 13.61: Only qualified and authorized personnel are permitted to tow trailers as indicated by an endorsement on a Driver-Operator Identification Card or documentation authorizing use. Each Forest shall have personnel qualified to train and to authorize drivers for towing trailers.
Video/DVD Resources
- Title: RV Education 101: Learning
RVs the Easy Way
- Format: DVD
- Length: 52 minutes
- Date: 2004
- Price: $24.95
- Availability: Web site: http://www.rveducation101.com
- Description: This DVD discusses the proper equipment for a trailer and the towing vehicle. It also provides an explanation of weight ratings and load characteristics. It includes descriptions of safe trailer driving techniques such as ways to minimize sway and how to respond to conditions when sway makes a trailer unstable. The DVD covers safety concerns for fifth-wheel trailers and for trailers that use a standard hitch.
- Title: Trailering Your Boat
- Format: Video
- Length: 16 minutes, 30 seconds
- Date: 2005
- Price: $50.00, plus shipping and handling
- Availability: National Technical Information Service Web site: http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.asp?loc=3-0-0
- Description: This video produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Coast Guard focuses on safety considerations directly related to transporting, unloading, and loading boats. It does not include issues related to vehicle towing capacity and hitch equipment, users should consult installers and manufacturers and get professional advice.
Electronic Documents
- Title: Towing a Trailer: Being
Equipped for Safety
- Format: Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) Length: 15 pages
- Date: 2002
- Price: Download for free
- Availability: U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Transportation Safety Administration Web site: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
- Description: This publication provides basic information on trailering, load control, and equipment selection.
- Title: Trailer Safety Industry
Coalition: Safety Tips Format: Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
- Length: 3 pages
- Date: 2005
- Price: Download for free
- Availability: Web site: http://www.trailersafety.org/
- Description: These are one-page safety tips on lug nuts, tire inflation, and cargo capacity. The tips do not provide comprehensive information about trailer procedures.
Forest Service Training Curriculum
- Title: Boise National Forest
training program
- Format: Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, supporting documents, and curriculum available for download in self-extracting zip file.
- Length: Not applicable
- Date: Unknown
- Price: Download for free
- Availability: Web site: http://fsweb.boise-nf.r4.fs.fed.us/safety/training.htm (Click on Trailer Towing Training/Certification)
- Description: This curriculum integrates a variety of resources and provides for hands-on experience. A self-extracting zip file includes PowerPoint presentations, lesson plans, supporting documentation, tests, and references to other resources that a safety officer might want to conduct training for employees who will be towing trailers.
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