Cranes & Rigging Awareness

Most crane fatalities are not exotic. They are a boom into a power line, a load that swings into someone, a sling that was already condemned before the shift started, or a person standing where the load was going to end up. This course covers 29 CFR 1926 Subpart CC (Cranes & Derricks in Construction) and the rigging equipment requirements of 29 CFR 1926.251: the roles OSHA defines and who has to be qualified versus competent, operator certification and the employer's evaluation duty, power line clearances, ground conditions, assembly/disassembly, sling types and removal-from-service criteria, rigging hardware, sling angles and center of gravity, signals, and the fall zone. IMPORTANT — this is an AWARENESS course. Completing it does NOT make you a qualified rigger, a qualified signal person, or a certified crane operator. Rigger and signal person qualification is a determination your employer makes about you, based on your knowledge and demonstrated ability; signal persons must additionally be assessed by a qualified evaluator under 1926.1428. Crane operators must be certified by an accredited testing organization (or one of the other options in 1926.1427) AND separately evaluated by their employer under 1926.1427(f). This course gives you the knowledge to work safely around cranes and to understand what the standard requires — your employer still owes you the hands-on, equipment-specific, site-specific piece. Issues a Migna certificate of completion for awareness-level training.