Information about Crane Training and Qualifications​

​The Association places a great deal of importance on training and safety and has succeeded in raising the standards of operation and efficiency across the face of the crane industry.

By supporting its members in these and other operational objectives the New Zealand crane industry has become an international benchmark of success in these areas.

Qualifications

As an employer, you have obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to train and supervise your employees to ensure that they do not cause harm to themselves or other people. 

Cranes and lifting activities have a high hazard potential in unskilled hands. So competency standards and training options need to be a key consideration in your business plans. Neglecting this issue will lessen the efficiency of your operation and expose your company to litigation when an accident occurs. 

Qualifications:
Level 3 Qualifications Program
Level 4 Qualifications Program

Trainees

People who operate and service cranes and machinery that lift loads take on significant responsibilities. There is always the potential for loads or cranes to fall on people, buildings or equipment if tasks are not treated with the level of skill and attention to safe procedures that they require.

A skilled operator is a craftsperson in their own right, but these skills and knowledge that gain such respect, are only achieved with proper training and experience.
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If you aspire to be a skilled crane operator, then you must commit yourself to a significant amount of training. It does involve a certain amount of theory, but the greater part is a programme of well-rounded hands-on skills development.

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Information for Employers

Training is essential for safe crane operation

What crane owners and employers need to know.

As an employer, you have obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to train and supervise your employees to ensure that they do not cause harm to themselves or other people. Cranes and lifting activities have a high hazard potential in unskilled hands.

So competency standards and training options need to be a key consideration in your business plans. Neglecting this issue will lessen the efficiency of your operation and expose your company to litigation when an accident occurs.

Key steps
• The development of the Company's health and safety policy that will underpin training schemes.
• The documentation of Company operating procedures detailing actions designed to control hazards.
• The deployment of training based on the Company's safe operating procedures. It makes good sense to develop procedures and nominate competency standards for your people that are recognised nationwide. This is particularly so if your employees work on other people's sites.

Standards developed by recognised industry experts will have greater acceptance than standards developed solely in-house.

Recommended reading:
- Approved Code of Practice for Cranes
- Approved Code of Practice for Load-Lifting Rigging
- Crane Association Crane Safety Manual Purchase here

See these documents for more information or contact us [email protected]

• What Employers need to know​
• What Site Managers need to know