Connecticut General Statutes 29-224c – Operation of crane or hoisting equipment by apprentice. Monitoring of apprentice
(a) An apprentice shall be permitted to operate a crane or hoisting equipment only where the requirements of this section are met.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 29-224c
- apprentice: means a person who is not licensed under this chapter, who has filed an application for a license with the board and whose employer has registered him or her with the board to learn crane operations or hoisting equipment operations under the direct supervision of a licensed operator in accordance with §. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
- crane: means power-operated equipment that can hoist, lower and horizontally move a suspended load and which has a manufacturer's maximum rated hoisting or lifting capacity exceeding two thousand pounds, including, but not limited to: (A) Articulating cranes such as knuckle-boom cranes, (B) crawler cranes, (C) floating cranes, (D) cranes on barges, (E) locomotive cranes, (F) mobile cranes such as wheel-mounted, rough terrain, all-terrain, commercial truck-mounted and boom truck cranes, (G) multipurpose machines when configured to hoist and lower, by means of a winch or hook, and horizontally move a suspended load, (H) industrial cranes such as carry-deck cranes, (I) dedicated pile drivers when used in construction, demolition or excavation work, (J) service or mechanic trucks with a hoisting device, (K) cranes on monorails, (L) tower cranes such as fixed jib hammerhead boom, luffing boom and self-erecting, (M) pedestal cranes, (N) portal cranes, (O) overhead and gantry cranes, (P) straddle cranes, (Q) side boom cranes, (R) derricks, and (S) variations of such equipment. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
- farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
(b) The employer shall provide each apprentice with sufficient training prior to operating the equipment to enable the apprentice to operate the equipment safely under the limitations established by this section, including continuous monitoring, and any additional limitations established by the employer.
(c) The tasks performed by the apprentice while operating the equipment shall be within the apprentice’s ability.
(d) While operating the equipment, the apprentice shall be continuously monitored by an individual who: (1) Is employed by, or is an agent of, the apprentice’s employer, (2) holds a valid crane operator’s or hoisting equipment license issued under this chapter, (3) while monitoring the apprentice, performs no tasks that detract from such individual’s ability to monitor the apprentice, (4) for equipment other than tower cranes, is in direct line of sight of the apprentice and communicates orally or by hand signals with the apprentice, and (5) for tower cranes, is in direct communication with the apprentice.
(e) The individual monitoring the apprentice may take short breaks provided (1) the break lasts no more than fifteen minutes and there is no more than one break per hour, (2) prior to the break, the individual informs the apprentice of the specific tasks the apprentice is to perform and limitations to which the apprentice must adhere, and (3) the specific tasks are within the apprentice’s abilities.
(f) An apprentice shall not operate equipment in any of the following circumstances: (1) If any part of the equipment, load line or load, including rigging and lifting accessories, if operated up to the equipment’s maximum working radius, could get within twenty feet of a power line that is three hundred fifty kilovolts or less or within fifty feet of a power line that is over three hundred fifty kilovolts, (2) if the equipment is used to hoist personnel, (3) in multiple equipment lifts, (4) if the equipment is used over a shaft or cofferdam or in a tank farm, and (5) in multiple-lift rigging operations, except where the individual monitoring the apprentice determines that the apprentice’s skills are sufficient.