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The term heavy equipment refers to the huge and heavy vehicles and machineries that are used for construction and engineering purposes. Earth movers, excavators, cranes, bulldozers and tractors can be stated as examples of the same. Personnel who manage and operate such equipments are thus known as heavy equipment operators. Trainings for such personnel, in other words heavy equipment operators’ courses, are therefore a necessity in order to increase productivity, reduce operating costs, increase the equipment life and ensuring safety at all times for these construction and engineering companies.

Operators’ courses for operating heavy equipments can be varied in nature. They can be both onsite corporate training sessions as well as online courses. In case of onsite courses, teams of experienced and highly skilled industrial professionals provide instructor-led courses in efficiently and effectively driving and operating heavy equipments. In most of the cases teams of such training consultants visit the client site and provide customized operators’ courses as required by the company for its projects. Construction companies in sectors starting from roads and railways, mining, manufacturing companies to forestry and agriculture all over the world are generally seen to exercise such heavy equipment operator’s courses from external engineering consultancies.

Apart from these, there are numerous online operators’ courses which an operator or a team can undertake in order to self learn from scratch, upgrade skills, refresh one’s existing knowledge or use as a support to the hands-on training program. In case of online operators’ courses, along with all the industrial professionals, large teams of graphic designers, animators, programmers, etc are involved in making these instructions reach the operators in the most useful mode. Starting from detailed manuals down to the category, series and even specific model of an equipment, to an extensive graphic high definition video regarding equipment operation, all are provided via computer based training modules.

Examples of such onsite and online heavy equipment operators’ courses can be seen in USA where International Union of Operating Engineers conduct apprenticeship courses for equipment operators, National Association of Heavy Equipment Training Schools offer certified courses for the same and Association of Equipment Manufacturers create manuals for safety standards.

Thus, the best strategy in providing any heavy equipment operators’ course is to first provide the basics and fundamentals in the classroom followed by a hands-on training by the instructor’s onsite, and have the entire course supported by online CBT manuals for providing equipment specific knowledge, recalling skills, upgrading knowledge as well as for final evaluating purposes.