NEWS HEADLINES

NCCCO is pleased to announce the following Practical Examiner Accreditation Workshops to be held in Fort Collins, CO:
   • Signalperson to be held December 12, 2019
   • Signalperson Refresher to be held December 12, 2019

NCCCO took center stage in the demonstration area at the second-ever CONEXPO Latin America, held October 2–5 in Santiago, Chile.

NCCCO is pleased to announce the following Practical Examiner Accreditation Workshops to be held in Woodland, WA:
   • Rigger Level I to be held December 18–19, 2019
   • Rigger Level II to be held December 20–21, 2019
   • Rigger Refresher to be held December 16, 2019

Director of OSHA’s Directorate of Construction, Scott Ketcham, will provide the keynote presentation at the forthcoming Industry Forum on Personnel Qualifications.

This presentation by industry expert, Thom Sicklesteel, formerly president of Sicklesteel Cranes and now CEO of NCCCO, will focus on the different responsibilities of individuals on the jobsite, what their roles are, and what training and qualification is necessary to meet the requirements.

As a leading advocate of jobsite safety and source of information for the industry, NCCCO was again highly visible at this year’s International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE).

Following the success of previous events, NCCCO will hold its 4th Industry Forum on Personnel Qualifications on October 24, 2019, in Houston, Texas.

The crane-using community will be interested in the 12+ crane and rigging educational sessions at CONEXPO 2020 sponsored by the NCCCO Foundation and the SC&RA.

Recognizes “Many contributions” and “Significant impact”
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has awarded its inaugural Workforce Development and Innovation Award to NCCCO.

First price changes in 18 years simplify fee structure.
Effective January 1, 2020, NCCCO will implement a streamlined fee structure for its certification and recertification exams.

NCCCO’s updated Exam Retake Policy will take effect on October 1, 2019. This policy requires any candidate failing an NCCCO written exam to wait a minimum of four weeks before being eligible to retake the same exam again.

After a thorough onsite audit of its certification procedures and psychometric protocols, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has granted NCCCO continued accreditation for its more than 20 crane and crane-related personnel certifications.

If you thought it was too soon to start planning for CONEXPO 2020 – think again! The once-every-three-years international exhibition and seminar, North America’s largest, is only 10 months away and that’s close enough to start checking your calendars to carve out some quality time to make plans to attend the event, to be held in the second week of March next year. With 2,800 exhibitors across 2,500,000 square feet and some 150 education sessions, CONEXPO is a “must attend” for serious construction industry professionals.

Twenty years almost to the day that OSHA and NCCCO signed their historic agreement officially recognizing CCO certification as an objective assessment of the knowledge and skills of crane operators, representatives from the two agencies sat down again in the very same room at the Department of Labor in Washington D.C. that the Agreement had been signed in.

Violations of a certification body’s policies, including the code of ethics and substance abuse policy, can threaten the trustworthiness of a certification program and erode its integrity. NCCCO has always taken such matters very seriously and in line with its policy of continuing improvement, has announced two major enhancements to its program integrity tools.