4G HOISTING ENDMOST ASSESSMENT 2025
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW GUIDE WITH STEP-BY-STEP
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED A+ SOLUTIONS
✔✔All welding and cutting on hoisting equipment is done in accordance with the
requirements of what? - ✔✔American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) chapter
9 or AWS (American Welding Society)
✔✔What items should be checked on a daily inspection? - ✔✔Wipers, tires, hoses,
lights, fluids, belts, horn, back up alarm, brakes, and welds
✔✔What type of protection should be given to the operators of material handling and
moving equipment? - ✔✔Protection from the weather, heat in the winter, safety
shatterproof glass, hard hat, R-O-P (roll over protection)
✔✔What regulatory authority governs hoisting machinery? - ✔✔520-CM R 6:00 MGL
Chapter 146 Section 53-54A
✔✔When is the safest way to enter and exit a backhoe or loader? - ✔✔By using the
"three point contact" rule, this means that you should always remain in contact with the
machine at least 3 points, both hands and a foot, or two feet and one hand. Also be sure
to use the hand and foot holds, and when exiting back down out of vehicle
✔✔When using a helper to load, what precautions should you take? - ✔✔Be sure your
helper is positioned out of your intended path of travel and that before starting you both
agree on hand signals, especially the one for "stop"
✔✔Should you inspect your backhoe after trailering? - ✔✔Yes always inspect backhoe
after trailering?
✔✔Is it a safe practice to rely on the backhoe's back up alarm to warn others that you
are backing up? - ✔✔No it's not safe practice
✔✔Define load or working radius = Cushion of safety - ✔✔The area around your
machine that should be barricaded to keep away
✔✔If while lifting a load, the boom jams and becomes stuck. What do you do? -
✔✔Clear the area and lower it to the around and block it
, ✔✔What are out riggers? - ✔✔They level and stabilize the machine
✔✔Where a swinging weight such as a ball, clam shell bucket or other mechanical
equipment is used to demolish a structure, the unoccupied zone (cushion of safety) of
demolition at grade, shall be equal to - ✔✔At least the height of the structure ✔✔Where
a clam shell bucket such as on an excavator is being used to bite off sections of the
structure, a zone of demolition shall be maintained: - ✔✔Within 25ft of the line of travel
of the bucket for debris that may fall out of the bucket
✔✔What is best way to load a truck? - ✔✔Load the vehicle from the side, not the rearm
the dump spoils front to rear
✔✔What are the rules regarding exhaust safety? - ✔✔Work area must be properly
ventilated
✔✔What do you have to be careful of when driving on a construction site? - ✔✔Soft
soil, people, grading stakes, other equipment, wells, power lines, and fuel storage areas
✔✔When do you need a gas test? - ✔✔Any time you smell gas, or think you hit a gas
line
✔✔What are dipper stick extensions used for? - ✔✔They are extensions attached to the
dipper stick to give the backhoe additional digging depth
✔✔When towing (not trailering) a backhoe or loader, what speed should you NOT
exceed? - ✔✔5mph should not be exceeded
✔✔What does articulate mean on a wheel loader? - ✔✔Bends in the middle
✔✔What does a class 1C license cover? - ✔✔Hydraulic boom with no wire rope, such
as a lull, knuckle crane, fork lift and moffit
✔✔What are boom stops? - ✔✔Devices to stop the boom from tipping over backwards
✔✔What weights do you add to determine the weight of the lift? - ✔✔Any weight added
to the lift including the rigging
✔✔How far can you dig without shoring? - ✔✔Less than 5 feet
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW GUIDE WITH STEP-BY-STEP
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED A+ SOLUTIONS
✔✔All welding and cutting on hoisting equipment is done in accordance with the
requirements of what? - ✔✔American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) chapter
9 or AWS (American Welding Society)
✔✔What items should be checked on a daily inspection? - ✔✔Wipers, tires, hoses,
lights, fluids, belts, horn, back up alarm, brakes, and welds
✔✔What type of protection should be given to the operators of material handling and
moving equipment? - ✔✔Protection from the weather, heat in the winter, safety
shatterproof glass, hard hat, R-O-P (roll over protection)
✔✔What regulatory authority governs hoisting machinery? - ✔✔520-CM R 6:00 MGL
Chapter 146 Section 53-54A
✔✔When is the safest way to enter and exit a backhoe or loader? - ✔✔By using the
"three point contact" rule, this means that you should always remain in contact with the
machine at least 3 points, both hands and a foot, or two feet and one hand. Also be sure
to use the hand and foot holds, and when exiting back down out of vehicle
✔✔When using a helper to load, what precautions should you take? - ✔✔Be sure your
helper is positioned out of your intended path of travel and that before starting you both
agree on hand signals, especially the one for "stop"
✔✔Should you inspect your backhoe after trailering? - ✔✔Yes always inspect backhoe
after trailering?
✔✔Is it a safe practice to rely on the backhoe's back up alarm to warn others that you
are backing up? - ✔✔No it's not safe practice
✔✔Define load or working radius = Cushion of safety - ✔✔The area around your
machine that should be barricaded to keep away
✔✔If while lifting a load, the boom jams and becomes stuck. What do you do? -
✔✔Clear the area and lower it to the around and block it
, ✔✔What are out riggers? - ✔✔They level and stabilize the machine
✔✔Where a swinging weight such as a ball, clam shell bucket or other mechanical
equipment is used to demolish a structure, the unoccupied zone (cushion of safety) of
demolition at grade, shall be equal to - ✔✔At least the height of the structure ✔✔Where
a clam shell bucket such as on an excavator is being used to bite off sections of the
structure, a zone of demolition shall be maintained: - ✔✔Within 25ft of the line of travel
of the bucket for debris that may fall out of the bucket
✔✔What is best way to load a truck? - ✔✔Load the vehicle from the side, not the rearm
the dump spoils front to rear
✔✔What are the rules regarding exhaust safety? - ✔✔Work area must be properly
ventilated
✔✔What do you have to be careful of when driving on a construction site? - ✔✔Soft
soil, people, grading stakes, other equipment, wells, power lines, and fuel storage areas
✔✔When do you need a gas test? - ✔✔Any time you smell gas, or think you hit a gas
line
✔✔What are dipper stick extensions used for? - ✔✔They are extensions attached to the
dipper stick to give the backhoe additional digging depth
✔✔When towing (not trailering) a backhoe or loader, what speed should you NOT
exceed? - ✔✔5mph should not be exceeded
✔✔What does articulate mean on a wheel loader? - ✔✔Bends in the middle
✔✔What does a class 1C license cover? - ✔✔Hydraulic boom with no wire rope, such
as a lull, knuckle crane, fork lift and moffit
✔✔What are boom stops? - ✔✔Devices to stop the boom from tipping over backwards
✔✔What weights do you add to determine the weight of the lift? - ✔✔Any weight added
to the lift including the rigging
✔✔How far can you dig without shoring? - ✔✔Less than 5 feet
