This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to operate a container side lifter (swing lifter and/or side loader).

It includes checking a container side lifter and ancillary equipment, ensuring site safety, loading a container from the ground onto a vehicle, unloading a container from vehicle to ground, and transferring a container from one vehicle to another in accordance with relevant state and/or territory authority requirements and regulations.

It also includes maintaining systematic and efficient control of all functions, managing side lifter condition and performance, and effectively managing hazardous situations while operating a container side lifter.

Operation of a container side lifter is performed with limited supervision, and with duty of care responsibility for self and others in achieving the prescribed outcomes.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.