Case Study
Capital Power - Plant wide Custom Rigging Program to establish Uniform rigging & Hoisting standard
Capital Power - Plant wide Custom Rigging Program to establish Uniform rigging & Hoisting standard “Rigging training that doesn’t address the unique requirements of the task, work area and our equipment doesn’t provide much value to anyone . . . certainly not to our workers who are called upon to perform infrequent lifts of various complexities in support of regular duties,” said Beverly Plumb, Manager of Workforce Development at Capital Power in Alberta, Canada. Plumb works at Capital Power’s Genesee Power Plant, which has about 250 employees generating power for the province of Alberta. Plumb was aware that there was a need to get their hoisting and rigging training program to the point where it addressed the unique needs of the site’s various workgroups and their hoisting activ