OSHA Removes Capacity from Operator Certification

 

April 16, 2015 – NCCCO reports that OSHA has removed the requirement that crane operators should be certified according to crane capacity from its draft regulatory language. In the draft issued last month, the federal agency has left the certification requirement and process essentially unchanged, except for the removal of the requirement for certification by capacity, according to NCCCO.

 

“Certification still includes a written and practical exam, but certification will only be by type of crane—not by capacity,” OSHA states in its summary of the rule.

 

OSHA has also addressed the issue of whether certification is equivalent to qualification, an issue the industry had also complained about. An OSHA advisory group has proposed simply requiring the operator to be a “qualified person” as defined under the OSHA law, states NCCCO in a press release posted on its website.