“COMPETENCY AUDITS”

What is a competency audit? What purpose does it serve? Are these the new industry buzz words? These are pertinent questions. When it comes to how this is related to crane operators and worksite safety in the lifting equipment industries across Canada. Currently there is little information in all jurisdictional OH&S Regulations or standards. Pertaining to the quality, consistency and maintaining of training for all crane operators of lifting equipment. As a result there are significant accidents, injuries and fatalities that in the majority of cases were preventable. Would your crane operators and supervisors meet compliance requirements of a “Competency Audit”?

For more information on this subject will be presented at the CRC CANADA conference this fall. To register click here then save and fill the form.

All Canadian Training Institute (ACTi) is an Edmonton-based "Crane Safety Training" and product design development company specializing in standards-based training for industry. ACTi has been in business since 1994 and has assisted over 400 companies and organizations since its inception.

ACTi is one of the first companies in North America, to have all training material content and videos annually audited and verified, by an industry expert professional engineer, Ian Humphrey. The purpose of these third party audits is to ensure the material content is in accordance and compliant to all applicable federal and international recognized standards.

 Read the 2012 Operator engineering certificate and 2012 Supervisor engineering certificate.

What Does ACTi Offer That Others Don’t

   - ACTi is unlike any other safety training provider. Our courseware material content is audited annually by an industry expert professional engineer to ensure compliance with all jurisdictional codes, regulations and standards. Why is this important? A safer work site and the assurance that your safety training course meet the minimum requirements of National and International standards. In the event of an accident or injury these audits reduce responsibility of liability for ACTi, our instructors and our clients.

   - Industries main concern is the lack of being able to maintain internal safety training provided by an in-house program or external training provider. ACTi has designed safety training programs that teach how to develop, document and implement processes for monitoring operators, ensuring they are continuously working in compliance to the safe work practices learned.

   - ACTi has designed an operator daily logbook that makes it easy to perform crane start-up and shutdown checks simply and consistently, also includes instructions on how to perform load calculations. The daily logbook provides the supervisor with a copy of the completed checklist to ensure maintenance issues are responded to and tracked. Why is this important? Not everyone uses a crane every day and the logbook is a “How to reminder”. When a supervisor responds to reported maintenance issues, it shows that they are aware of the importance for maintaining equipment and those operators are performing and documenting all required safety tasks.

   - ACTI’s programming extends the corporate H&S program “training element” to include instructions for all required inspections for start-up and shut-down of equipment. Why is this important? It lays the ground work to develop unique instructions applicable to each piece of equipment that requires a start-up, shut-down and is documented in a logbook.

Compliance to Bill C45 and Federal OSHA

   - ACTi’s safety training programs are among the first that meet the minimum compliance requirements for Bill C45 (Canada) and Federal OSHA Section “Cranes & Derricks” (USA). ACTi designed programming that follows the principles of ISO 9000 Quality Management systems. Due Diligence for compliance has been a major part of our safety training methodology since our inception in 1994.

Standardization of Safety Training Material Content

   - ACTi safety training programs are standardized making them applicable to all company locations worldwide. Providing corporate office with total traceability and assurance that the safety training is consistent in delivery at every location. This is assurance that everything “Reasonably practicable” has been done to ensure operator and worksite safety.

Reduction of All Related Non-tangible Costs

   - When ACTi’s safety training programs and methodology are properly implemented and maintained the company could easily realize a reduction of 10% or more of applicable non-tangible costs in the first year per location. Example; accidents, injuries, unnecessary breakdowns of equipment due to misuse and abuse, expensive repairs, hourly production cost could easily be the most expensive loss, insurance, WCB rates, personnel injury law suits, etc.

   - All other safety training programs begin to dissipate on completion of the training, end result is just another “cost incurred”. Whereas ACTi’S safety training is continuous and ongoing, making it a “cost recovery” system.

What services does All Canadian Training Institute offer?

ACTi training material content and videos are annually audited and verified, by an industry expert professional engineer. These audits ensure the material content is in accordance and compliant to all applicable national and international standards; this is also objective proof of due diligence.

ACTi offers various products and services including:

- On-site training

- Various crane safety training courses:

- Overhead traveling crane operator safety

- Overhead crane supervisor safety

- Train the trainer programs

- Basic rigging courses

- ACTi Licencing packages

- Distributors

- Master Instructor

- Lead Instructor

- Site Instructor

- Other products:

- Rigging kits

- Safety videos

ACTi is Making a Difference

 By assisting industry to develop and document

 "Industry Best Practices" for End Users and Operators of

 Lifting Equipment.