Even if you have a fair amount of idea about dogging jobs (a number of blokes have it, amazingly, even if they have not undergone any official course), and if you are strong, and therefore confidence enough to carry out the job, that does not mean you can be a professional dogger minus an official ticket.

Quite understandably, you are not entitled to get a dogging job without a valid ticket, and that's what these courses are meant for. But that's only the legal part. Let that be ignored for a while and let this chapter deal more with the technical part of the episode – something that is pretty ubiquitous, to say least. And why not? These courses are structured in such a manner that they prepare a trainee most professionally. This turns them to be the finest professionals in the business.

So it's perhaps fair to say that, but for these courses, a professional is like a larrikin bloke, poised to act nonsensically in spite of possessing all the acquaintance that the profession demands.

What difference does a dogging course make?

To be frank, to ascertain the advantage of undergoing the course, one has to be familiar with the content that a typical Brisbane dogging course has to offer.

The course offers a ticket, which essentially tells that the holder is well aware of various slinging techniques and is trained to perform them. This includes selecting and inspecting the lifting gear and determining and altering the direction of the crane(s) and the motion thereof, by instructing the personnel operating the crane(s).

This includes directing the crane operator even when the load(s) is/are beyond the sight of the crane operator.

The ticket also authorizes the holder to the scope of operation, which exemplifies the competency in the application of various types of slinging techniques. These techniques need to be backed by the selection as well as inspection of the lifting gear and directing the crane operators when it comes to moving the load from one point to another.

What a typical training institute will offer to its candidate?

So far as dogging is concerned, there are so many things that an able training institute can offer to its trainees.

They may include:

-Offering the pre-course study materials, which will give the trainees a fair idea about what they are expecting when they take up the dogging course in the Sunshine Coast Institute

-Consolidated training, which includes formal as well as theoretical classes

-Discussing the training plan with the trainees and the necessity thereof

-Discussing the use and feasibility of logbooks and activity books

-Consolidated practical training sessions

-Selecting, inspection and use of various types of slings, ropes, hitches, splices, bends and the likes

-Ways to assist the crane operators in setting and packing up mobile slew as well as direct cranes

-The techniques of slinging, securing, moving loads with the help of different types of cranes

-Discussion of various types of loads that they are likely to maneuver

-Discussing the fall arrest harness system, which includes span line and different anchorage options

-Then there are written and practical assessments as the last hurdle to cross before the trainees are considered eligible to get the ticket.

So a person who is eyeing to be a professional dogger and rigger needs to go through all these before the person can be deemed an expert. That itself explains, what difference a typical dogging course makes in the professional world.

Author's Bio: 

The author is the owner of an institute that offers a comprehensive dogging course in Sunshine Coast, Brisbane. The author is also an expert in this subject and writes blogs regularly on this.