With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new rule for crane operation taking effect this month, the industry’s response has been less a panic over additional regulation than a sigh of ...

Coinciding with the recent fatal crane incidents in New York City and Miami, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) member and certified crane operator trainer Greg Peters noted that to avoid ...

After eight years in development, the new rule would remove certification-by-capacity restrictions. Eight years after it began the process of finalizing a rule to govern the certification of crane and ...

On June 5, Representatives of the leading crane industry trade organizations announced their support for enhanced training and rigorous new standards for safe crane construction, operation and ...

More than 90 Bay State contractors and safety professionals recently received crane safety training under the auspices of an alliance between OSHA and the Construction Safety Roundtable of Eastern ...

In an industry that is constantly evolving, it’s easy to see that the crane and rigging sector is undergoing a significant shift in how operator training is delivered, with technology playing a ...

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, ...

Matthew Shaw is regulatory compliance coordinator for the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators. Published with permission from Equipment Manager magazine, the magazine of AEMP.

Last year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration slapped a Boise contractor with a citation for its involvement in the deadly collapse of a hangar under construction at the Boise Airport.