on each crane he or she operates. ator on every different machine ration and whether they are used
If multiple cranes are used and the operator runs,” explains Cliff for the same type of work,” adds
the machines are the same make, Dickinson, President of CIS. Dickinson.
alike, one qualification evaluation “The evaluation process requires A one-day Crane Site Safety class
will suffice. However, if the em- initial planning to determine how offered by CIS may now also in-
ployer has multiple cranes made many different machines are in a clude two additional days on- site
by different manufacturers, the given fleet, how many of them are devoted to instruction on how to
employer must qualify each oper- the same make, model, configu- evaluate an operator. On the sec-
model number and are configured
ond day of evaluation instruction,
potential evaluators are observed
performing the actual process.
The course reviews the OSHA
documentation requirements, and
includes a checklist that evalua-
tors can apply to different crane
types and configurations that are
commonly used in the employer’s
fleet. The course also provides
guidance for evaluators to deter-
mine if an operator is qualified
to run the machine. “There is a
heavy focus in the class on new
OSHA language for operators to
be able to ‘recognize and avert
risk,’ ” says Dickinson.
Online record-keeping
OSHA requires that operator eval-
uations be available on the job-
site, however, Dickinson says, “It
does employers no good to lock
the information away in a filing
cabinet or save it to an electronic
file without making the informa-
tion searchable and dynamic.”
Working with iReportSource Inc.,
Crane Industry Services, LLC (CIS)
has customized an online report-
ing tool for crane users. iReport-
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