{"id":5722,"date":"2018-11-06T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:00:39","slug":"5722-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/5722-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHA Recognizes Certification by Type Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/item\/national-commission-certification-crane-operators-nccco\/\">National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO)<\/a> has reported that OSHA has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/trade\/11052018\">guidance<\/a> to its compliance officers that will direct them to accept crane operator certifications that are based on type alone, rather than type and capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/trade\/11052018\">guidance document<\/a> published yesterday is intended to be an interim measure until the new final rule is published. Since this now looks unlikely to be before the language of the existing rule comes into effect on November 10, 2018, OSHA is clarifying the status of the certifications that have been issued under different criteria than those in the original rule.<\/p>\n<p>The current language, which has been the source of much debate in the almost eight years since it was published, and which is due to be permanently changed once a final rule is published later this year or early next, requires certification by type and capacity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5723\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5723\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28.png 479w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28-385x300.png 385w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28-295x230.png 295w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28-440x343.png 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-06-at-12.55.28-417x325.png 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCCCO was formed in January 1995 as a non-profit organization with its mission to develop effective performance standards for safe crane operation to assist all segments of general industry and construction.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has reported that OSHA has issued guidance to its compliance officers that will direct them to accept crane operator certifications that are based on type alone, rather than type and capacity. The guidance document published yesterday is intended to be an interim measure until the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/5722-2\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[314,779,74,2293,166,172],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-crane","tag-crane-operators","tag-cranes","tag-national-commission-for-the-certification-of-crane-operators","tag-nccco","tag-osha"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OSHA Recognizes Certification by Type Alone - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/5722-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OSHA Recognizes Certification by Type Alone - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has reported that OSHA has issued guidance to its compliance officers that will direct them to accept crane operator certifications that are based on type alone, rather than type and capacity. 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