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About 27% of workers killed during that five year period of time were killed by objects falling from the crane. (Source: BLS)
Canada requires rough terrain crane training for rough terrain crane operators–on that there is no question. Where confusion exists is how often operators need rough terrain crane refresher training or recertification. Outside of the initial safety training class, it is common to see companies set recertification at every three years. We are one of them. And here’s why:
As far as this 3-year rough terrain mobile crane training certification goes, Canada regulations are very specific when it comes to forklifts and a couple other pieces of equipment. However, on everything else they are not so clear. They just state the employer must regularly provide safety training for their aerial lift operators. Following industry best practices, we’ve adopted this 3-year term in order to help employers comply with the general standard of regularly providing and proving rough terrain mobile crane training. Ultimately, it is up to the employer to determine how frequently their rough terrain crane operators need to be trained. Many of our customers require it more often, annually even. Others may stretch it out a bit. In working with Canada, though, it is our experience that they like to see employers adopt the strictest standard when the regulations are not clear. For instance, we know of companies that didn’t train every three years and were reprimanded by Canada for not offering additional training more often. It is not uncommon for Canada to refer to the forklift standard as the pattern by which training should be carried out for other pieces of equipment. On a side note, Canada is slowly but surely making training requirements specific for other pieces of equipment so there are no gray areas. Mobile cranes and aerial lifts, for instance, are all undergoing potential changes to the regulations that will reference training specifically.
So, with that in mind, we say rough terrain crane operators must be re-evaluated every three years to determine if they are still competent enough to operate. We also state that this every-three-year rough terrain crane evaluation is the maximum time that should be allowed to pass before an operator receives rough terrain crane recertification. According to Canada, there are several instances that will require additional rough terrain crane training and observation before the three year period is up:
This, above all, causes a lot of confusion. Bottom line, Canada states that employers are responsible to train their employees. Generally speaking, there are three ways they can do this:
In terms of using a 3rd part of an employee safety training companies materials (like our RT Crane training PowerPoint kits or our RT Crane training classes online) Canada does not recognize one company over another. They simply state that ‘training needs to occur’ and ‘here are the things an aerial lift operator should be trained on.’
When we do live training or offer aerial lift training online, people often assume we are the ones certifying the trainees. This is not true for any training company. We are simply assisting the employer by providing live aerial lift training or the training materials needed to help them aerial lift certify their employees.