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 ...

Documentation of qualifications can be secured through one of four means: 1) certification by an accredited testing organization; 2) qualification by an audited employer program; 3) qualification by ...

Eight years after it began the process of finalizing a rule to govern the certification of crane and derrick operators in the construction industry, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has announced plans to remove the eligibility requirement for a physical evaluation for candidates for its certification exams.

In 2010 OSHA promulgated a final rule regulating cranes and derricks in the construction industry, Cranes and Derricks in Construction, Subpart CC (29 C.F.R. 1926.1400, et al.). Shortly after the ...

It is crucial that every crane operator holding a current card will still have a valid certification when compliance begins in a little over 18 months There has been much discussion about the new rule ...

OSHA final rule this month sets Nov. 10, 2018, as the date for employers in U.S. construction industries to comply with a requirement for crane operator certification. Nov 22, 2017 An OSHA final rule ...

Some contractors no doubt will be relieved to know that OSHA issued a final rule Sept. 25 that extends by three years the deadline for crane operator certification requirements established in its ...

A large part of the U.S. construction industry may not be aware that crane operators will need to be certified by 2017, according to a report that a training company has published. This past June, ...

In November OSHA confirmed a postponement of its crane operator certification requirements (due to have taken effect in November) until 2017. Over the next three years, the agency says, it will work ...