Tag: OSHA cranes

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

Safety

Contractors, manufacturers, AEM question new OSHA crane operator certification requirements

During meetings that ran April 2-3, contractors, industry organizations representatives of several crane manufacturers and more voiced their opinion to OSHA that the safety administration needs to make changes to the operator and certification requirements before they take hold in November 2014. The controversy surrounds the cranes and derricks in construction standard, 29 C.F.R. 1926.1427, approved […]

April 10, 2013