The certification scheme for training
institutions
Presentert av
Ellington Wilkins
Lead auditor
ASAS Sertifisering AS
ASAS SERTIFISERING AS
Training institutions: 102
Certified technical control: 54
Both: 38
Total: 194
Certification body
 Third-party conformity assessment body
operating certification schemes.
 Impartiality
No commercial, financial or other pressures to
compromise impartiality
Certification body
 Confidentiality at all times
Commitment to the management of all
information recieved or created during
certification
Training requirements
 All persons working with dangerous
equipment in Norway
 Certified safety training is required for the
following types of work equipment:
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Gantry cranes and overhead travelling cranes (if use
involves danger to life or health).
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Tower cranes
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Mobile cranes
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Portal cranes
Training requirements
 Certified safety training is required for the
following types of work equipment:

Cranes with a capacity greater than 2 tm when mounted on
a truck or truck trailer
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Lifting and stacking vehicles for goods with a permanent
operator’s cabin on the vehicle
• Earth moving machines with an effect greater than 15 kW
(20.4 hp).
CERTIFICATION SCHEME
Based on specific requirements
Training institutions/Technical
control entities
Regulation governing
organisation and management,
Workplace, work activity,
forskrift om administration
criteria’s, Trainee guidelines &
additional criteria’s
Regulations
Regulation 1355 Organisation,
management and participation
Regulation 1357 Work operations
Regulation 1356 For the workplace
Regulation 1360 For Administrative
requirements
Example of the evaluation
process
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Upon completion of this module, the trainee will be
able to do the following:
1.
Describe basic prestart activities for heavy equipment
machinery.
Describe basic safety measures associated with operating
heavy equipment.
Explain how to properly start, operate, and shut down the
following types of heavy equipment:
Dozers, loaders, backhoes, excavators, compaction
equipment, motor graders, scrapers, on road dump
trucks, off-road dump trucks.
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Certification process
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Application for certification
Accept of application / review
Document evaluation
Certification audit
Accept and correction of non - conformities
Verification
Certification documentation / certificate
Surveillence
Document evaluation
 Procedures for training in the use of earth moving
equipment
 Routines for access to necessary equipment that are
in good technical operation
 Routines for access to qualified competent instructors
 Routines for maintenance of competence
 Documentation of the technical control of equipment
by impartial third party
Document evaluation
 Documentation of access to necessary and accepted
literature
 Documentation of acceptable course plan with allotted
time
 Routines/procedures for the examination of candidates
(theoretical and practical)
 Procedures for candidates with writing and or reading
disabilities
Certification audit
Consists of confirmation/ verification of the before mentioned
documentation
 Verification of qualified instructors
 Verification of the maintenance of competence of instructors
 Verification of the participation of candidates
 Verification of the use of theoretical literature/course
materiel
Certification audit
 Verification of the use of the required time
 Verification of the theoretical examination of all candidates
 Verification of access to and use of correct equipment for
practical training
 Verification of the practical examination of all candidates
Correction and accept of
non-conformities
 Based on the type of non-conformity (severe or non-severe)
 A time frame for correcting the non-conformity will be agreed upon.
 Review and accept of non-conformity.
Certification documentation
 Four years
 Requires annual surveillance by the certification body
 Must adhere to the certification scheme and any directions from the
certification body.
Surveillance
 Annual audit/surveillance of the certified entity
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Re-certification after four years
Sertifiseringsrevisjonen
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Re-sertifisering
SERTIFIKAT –
CERTIFICATE
Organisasjons nr.: Org. nr.
Sertifiseringsnummer ATSHar dokumentert og demonstrert kunnskap i kravene for
produktsertifisering og kravene i Forskrift om bruk av
arbeidsutstyr, best. nr. 555, §50
GYLDIGHETSOMRÅDE:
Sertifisert for sikkerhetsopplæring av førere/operatører av
arbeidsutstyr
som er nevnt i §49, best. nr. 555, herunder ;
- Løfte og stablevogner for gods
Sertifiseringen forutsetter regelmessig oppfølging frem til sertifikatets
utløpsdato.
Virksomheten er selv ansvarlig for utført opplæring
1. gang sertifisert:
Utstedelsesdato:
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