With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new rule for crane operation taking effect this month, the industry’s response has been less a panic over additional regulation than a sigh of ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finalized its long-awaited approach to crane operator qualification and certification. 1 The rule, which has followed a tortuous road to ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced on May 21 that it is amending its proposed rule for crane operator training and certification. The new version of the rule removes the ...

It sounds like a classic "man bites dog" story: Industry representatives persuade a somewhat reluctant OSHA to update a regulation. But that appears to be precisely what happened in July, when OSHA ...

Crane Industry Services offering add-on to Crane Site Safety class with two additional days on-site devoted to instruction on how to evaluate an operator Crane Industry Services, LLC (CIS), Carrollton ...

OSHA is particularly keen to reduce worker exposures to electrical shock, electrocution, falls from elevation, and being struck by moving equipment through the latest alliance renewal. Continued ...

To coincide with the proposed rule on Cranes and Derricks in Construction published in the Federal Register, OSHA has initiated a National Crane Safety Initiative to address safety hazards during ...

Terex Utilities has published Product Advisory PA 1020D-18 regarding the recently released revision to the final rule on crane operator certification, which is effective Dec. 9, 2018. The requirement ...

Immediate concerns—signal persons For most crane-using companies working to comply with Subpart CC, their most pressing needs are to first “qualify” riggers and signal persons, and to then begin ...

Matthew Shaw is regulatory compliance coordinator for the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators. Published with permission from Equipment Manager magazine, the magazine of AEMP.

The 2018 crane rule from OSHA provided a framework for establishing operator competency for the construction industry. The operator must be: Trained + Certified/Licensed + Evaluated = Qualified. In ...