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CRANE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Actual Operating Hours
For Mobile cranes: This includes time while installing/removing boom sections, luffing boom, jib, extending and retracting outriggers/stabilizers, leveling crane, and replacing hoisting rope
For Tower cranes:This includes time while jumping (increasing the height of the tower/mast)
Related Crane Experience
Time as a signalman/bellman, oiler, crane mechanic, crane inspector
Formal classroom training, crane simulator operation, and
a combination of operating hours on other categories of cranes
Crane Operator Documentation
For experience obtained prior to January 1, 2010 or experience obtained outside L&I’s jurisdiction, the employer may accept a declaration from the crane operator attesting to actual hours of crane operator experience and crane related experience separated out by crane type and capacity
Crane Operator Documentation
Beginning January 1, 2010, crane operator experience and related crane experience must be documented and separated out by crane type and capacity and accessible to the operator upon request
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Hours of Experience:
Mobile Cranes
Crawler & Truck Lattice Boom
Operating Related
300t & above 1000 Hrs 1000 Hrs
Under 300t 500 Hrs 500 Hrs
Lg Telescopic Boom Cranes (Swing Cab)
Over 130t 750 Hrs 750 Hrs
Over 40t & up to 130t 250 Hrs 250 Hrs
Up to 40t 40 Hrs 40 Hrs
Sm Telescopic Boom Cranes (Fixed Cab) AKA BOOM TRUCK
Operating Related
Over 15t 40 Hrs 40 Hrs
Over 5t to 15t 20 Hrs 20 Hrs
5t & under 8 Hrs 16 Hrs
Articulating Cranes (Knuckle Boom)
20 Hrs 20 Hrs
Derricks 20 Hrs 500 Hrs
Tower Cranes Operating Related
Hammerhead 500 Hrs 500 Hrs
Luffing 500 Hrs 500 Hrs
Self-Erecting 50 Hrs 50 Hrs
Overhead/Bridge Cranes
Cab Operated 40 Hrs 40 Hrs
Pendant / Remote 40 Hrs 40 Hrs
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