OSHA regulations require that crane operators be certified or licensed and receive ongoing training as necessary. Learn about those requirements and OSHA's mandates about an employer's duty to ensure that crane operators can safely operate the equipment. Examine the principal content of the final rule, address its impact on OSH professionals, and review the need for synergy and coordination with the existing voluntary national consensus standards that impact cranes. We also review relevant consensus standards, how they support compliance, and how they can be used to remediate crane-related hazards and exposures.
What You Will Learn
- Understand OSHA's final rule on crane operator certification and discuss employers' duties related to this final rule.
- Assess how the rule affects OSH professionals and informs their role in coordinating compliance efforts with existing voluntary national consensus standards covering cranes.
Speaker
John Brewington, CAFM, CEM
John Brewington, CAFM, CEM, has over five decades of fleet asset and management experience, beginning with fleet management positions for two large contracting firms and transitioning in 1997 to his own consulting practice. During his "employed" years, he advanced to vice president of fleet operations for a 4,500-unit fleet, leading a team of 235 workers engaged in all aspects of fleet asset specifications, acquisition, maintenance, repair, testing, transportation and disposal. He currently operates Brewington and Co., a consulting practice providing fleet asset and management expertise for public and private-sector fleets across the U.S. and Canada. Brewington is an active member of five ANSI standards development groups: ANSI/ASSP A10.31 (chair), ANSI/ASSP Z15.1, ANSI/SAIA A92, ANSI/SAIA A92.2 and ANSI/SAIA A92.24. He holds the certified automotive fleet manager (CAFM) professional designation from the NAFA Fleet Management Association and the certified equipment manager (CEM) designation from the Association of Equipment Management Professionals.