Hoisting Personnel with Cranes

For employers, crane operators and platform occupants: when hoisting people with a crane is allowed, set-up and the 50 percent capacity limit, personnel platform and rigging criteria, trial lifts and proof tests, and safe work practices in the platform.

This certificate records completion of awareness training based on OSHA 29 CFR 1926.1431. It is not an OSHA card or license, it is not crane operator certification or qualification, and it does not make anyone a competent person or qualified person. Section 1926.1431 has no training requirement of its own; its requirements are supplemental to the other requirements of Subpart CC, which still apply. Before hoisting personnel, your employer must still hold the pre-lift meeting required by 29 CFR 1926.1431(m) to review the applicable requirements of the section and the procedures that will be followed, attended by the equipment operator, signal person (if used for the lift), employees to be hoisted, and the person responsible for the task to be performed, held prior to the trial lift at each new work location and repeated for any employees newly assigned to the operation.