National Wireless Safety Alliance Partnership with NCCCO

The National Wireless Safety Alliance (NWSA) and the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) have entered into a professional partnership for the development and administration of nationally accredited certification programs.

NCCCO, founded in 1995, has a 20-year successful track record of offering national assessment and certification programs for workers in various construction trades who work in and around cranes. The mission of NCCCO is to develop effective performance standards for those who work in and around cranes; provide fair, valid, and reliable assessments of their knowledge and skill; and act as an authoritative industry resource of related information.

The mission of the NWSA is to provide thorough, independent assessments of knowledge and skills and provide verifiable worker certification in order to enhance safety, reduce workplace risk, improve quality, encourage training, and recognize the skilled professionals who work on towers and other non-standard structures.

A key component of the partnership involves NCCCO’s professional consulting assistance in further developing NWSA’s various worker certification programs to the ANSI/ISO 17024 accreditation standard. NCCCO will also provide test development and administrative services to NWSA as part of the agreement.

The NWSA-NCCCO partnership also includes a co-branding agreement to offer CCO Signalperson and Rigger certification programs, beginning in the fall of 2015.

“In our 20th anniversary year, NCCCO is delighted to enter into this agreement with NWSA in order to facilitate use by the telecommunications industry of a credentialing process that has been proven to have had a major positive impact on the safety of those who participate in it,” said NCCCO CEO Graham Brent.