Tag: crane training

Driver/operator coaching/training

Crane operator, signaler can train as team with new CM Labs simulator station

This technology allows team members to train simultaneously, as well as be trained in situations that are too risky or costly to do in real life. Details here.

June 28, 2018

Driver/operator coaching/training

Crane study seeks to determine benefit of simulators in operator training

Crane Industry Services (CIS), has begun a study to determine how effective the integration of crane simulators is in its training program. The Atlanta-based company currently trains crane operators using a combination of online, classroom, hands-on and on-the-job training sessions. The study, performed through a partnership with Montreal-based CM Labs Simulations Inc. and West Georgia Technical College, introduces […]

July 11, 2016

Workforce

Crane Industry Services brings custom training courses to West Georgia Technical College

Hoping to boost the number of skilled trade workers in Georgia, Crane Industry Services, an Atlanta-bassed crane operator and rigger training company, has partnered with West Georgia Technical College in order to bring a wide set of industrial skills training courses to students. CIS announced it will offer courses at the college, located in Waco, […]

October 12, 2015

Driver/operator coaching/training

You may already be in violation of OSHA’s new service truck crane rules and not know it

Editors note: Last week OSHA proposed to delay service truck crane operator certification from November 1014 to November 2017. We have edited the following article to reflect that change. A complex new regulation is shaking up the world of small, truck-mounted cranes used to service construction machines and deliver building materials. Until recently, cranes with […]

May 21, 2013