{"id":14240,"date":"2025-02-24T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:33:15","slug":"work-to-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/work-to-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Work to Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/national-commission-certification-crane-operators-nccco\/\">NCCCO<\/a> Foundation and the National Safety Council (NSC), through its Work to Zero initiative, partnered to develop a free online tool to assist companies and individuals using cranes and other load-handling equipment to improve jobsite safety.<\/p>\n<p>The tool offers a list of controls tailored to address the most significant hazardous situations that contribute to serious incidents and fatalities (SIFs) in crane operations. The list was compiled by searching relevant safety literature and collecting feedback from industry experts and practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/national-commission-certification-crane-operators-nccco\/\">NCCCO<\/a> Foundation is excited to provide this new tool to the crane industry along with our friends at the National Safety Council\u201d, said T.J. Cantwell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/national-commission-certification-crane-operators-nccco\/\">NCCCO<\/a> Foundation Executive Director.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14242\" style=\"width: 748px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28.png 738w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28-400x209.png 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28-440x230.png 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28-650x340.png 650w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28-621x325.png 621w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-18.30.28-727x380.png 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NCCCO Foundation and the National Safety Council (NSC), through its Work to Zero initiative, partnered to develop a free online tool to assist companies and individuals using cranes and other load-handling equipment to improve jobsite safety.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCompanies and individuals can simply select from a variety of common safety hazards such as fatigue, fall from height, contact with overhead powerlines, equipment overturn\/tipping, and many more, to produce a variety of control options to help mitigate or eliminate them on the jobsite,\u201d Mr. Cantwell added.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the controls is categorized according to the Hierarchy of Controls, a method for identifying and ranking approaches to protect workers from hazards including, elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment, allowing users to consider which ones will work best in their unique situations.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1067\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-400x230.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-440x253.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-650x374.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-565x325.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hierarchy-of-Controls-660x380.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/national-commission-certification-crane-operators-nccco\/\">NCCCO<\/a> Foundation will host a webinar on March 4, 2025, with the National Safety Council and crane safety experts to discuss the tool and how companies implement various controls to prevent common safety hazards. Anyone interested in attending can register for the webinar at <a href=\"https:\/\/nccco.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_iM841e72TFSvQwrquvR5SA#\/registration\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/addressingsafetyhazardswebinar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Crane Operations Jobsite Safety Controls Tool is now available at <a href=\"https:\/\/nscsurveys.iad1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_9H3wcsxu1qSVYkm\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/CraneSafetyControlsTool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCCCO Foundation and the National Safety Council (NSC), through its Work to Zero initiative, partnered to develop a free online tool to assist companies and individuals using cranes and other load-handling equipment to improve jobsite safety. 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