New Crane Standard B167-08!!!

March 25, 2009 on 3:40 pm | In Announcements | Comments Off

Well it has been a number of years, 2002, since Canadian Standards Association (CSA) decided a revision was necessary for the second edition of the crane standard, entitled “Safety Standard for Maintenance and Inspection of Overhead Cranes, Gantry Cranes, Monorails, Hoists and Trolleys B167-96”.

This revision, B167-08, now includes crane design and classification as well as crane operation including operator qualifications and training requirements which are all components not covered by previous editions B167-96 or B167-64.

As well this new standard incorporates selected material from ISO and ASME standards. In particular the crane operation requirements of this new standard directly reference the operator training in ISO 9926-1.

Although it has been a long time coming, the really good news is that the standard is now (February 2009) available to purchase online from the CSA website (see our link).

The ISO 9926-1 can also be downloaded for a cost of US$43.00 at www.global.ihs.com.

In January we announced the introduction of our new Industrial Hoisting, Rigging and Crane Operator Training program which we are pleased to say was designed to meet the requirements of the new CSA B167-08 and the ISO9926-1.

The revised standard requires employers to maintain a record of training (ROT) for each operator that includes an expiry date by which time refresher training should be completed. It then states that operators should participate in refresher training on the theory portion of the course prior to this expiry date. This should be followed by both theory and practical refresher training prior to the next (second) expiry date on the ROT. On all future expiry dates the operator should receive theory refresher and on every other expiry date should receive practical refresher training.

It appears to be left up to the employer or the training provider to dictate just what this expiry should be. The CSA standard for Lift Trucks specifies a 3-year period however for some unknown reason this standard does not. It would seem a little obvious that a very similar time period would apply to cranes considering that under our Ontario Industrial Regulation 851 this equipment is all defined as ‘lifting devices’.

At Busch Training Inc. we have decided to use the same 3-year expiry for crane training as we do for lift truck operator training and as well for operators of aerial work platforms.

 

Again we are very excited about our new program, but we will also be introducing other new and creative material in the very near future.

Watch for future announcements!