CICB Takes OSHA, ANSI/ASME Based Crane Training to Puerto Rico

Crane Inspection & Certification Bureau (CICB) is bringing its OSHA, ANSI/ASME based crane safety, rigging and inspection training programs directly to Puerto Rico in April 2015.

With more than 45 years of experience providing quality training programs, CICB is reaching out to companies in Puerto Rico to help them achieve their 2015 safety goals, reduce risk and increase safety awareness.

CICB is well-positioned to meet growing demand for quality crane, rigging and inspection training, as a training provider for hundreds of companies in the construction, manufacturing, petrochemical and aerospace industries.

CICB has scheduled open enrollment safety training certificate programs for Mobile Crane & Rigger Inspector, Basic Rigger/Signal Person, Overhead Crane/Hoist & Rigging Inspector Training, Forklift Operator Train the Trainer, and Aerial Lift Operator Train the Trainer and invites all employers to signup and participate in the training programs in San Juan.

These quality programs are designed to provide the knowledge, proficiency, qualification, and design for companies to perform their own in-house training, reducing risk, and increasing productivity, life of equipment and regulatory compliance. The programs will enable companies to reduce the cost of training and save money by insourcing safety training that meets OSHA, ANSI/ASME standards.

OSHA and ANSI/ASME regulations require all cranes—mobile cranes used in construction or overhead cranes used in manufacturing—to be inspected. Crane inspector training programs will enable companies to perform their own in-house crane inspections, ensuring that inspectors meet the OSHA and ASME training requirements.

The absence of good rigging practices and lack of hands-on training contributes to a large percentage of material handling accidents.

“Accident statistics for the Spanish-speaking workers in the construction industry are often higher than the work population at large,” reported Crane and Rigging Hotline Magazine, in the November 2013 issue.

“For many years, CICB has been reaching an at-risk demographic with important safety instruction,” said Jerry Longtin, general manager of CICB. “Our subject matter experts/instructors have not only trained operators, riggers and inspectors in the U.S. and Mexico, but have provided training in Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.”