do employees require scissor lift training

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L ## BOOM SUPPORTED ELEVATING WORK PLATFORMS / SCISSOR LIFTS - SELF-PROPELLED ELEVATING WORK PLATFORMS ## [redacted phone] Boom Supported Elevating Work Platforms. - (1) When using boom supported elevating work platforms as covered by ANSI/SIA A92.5-1992, the manufacturer's operating manual must be with the equipment. You must follow all operating and maintenance instructions and recommendations of the manufacturer. - (2) Workers must use personal fall protection that complies with subdivision M of this division, when working in these devices. Stat. Auth.: ORS 654.025(2) and 656.726(3). Stats. Implemented: ORS 654.001 to 654.295. Hist: OR-OSHA Admin. Order 2-1997, f. 3/12/97, ef. 3/12/97. ## [redacted phone] Scissor Lifts - Self-Propelled Elevating Work Platforms. (1) When using self-propelled elevating aerial platforms, scissor lifts, as covered by ANSI/SIA A92.[redacted postal code], the manufacturer's operating manual must be with the equipment. You must follow all operating and maintenance instructions and recommendations of the manufacturer. Stat. Auth.: ORS 654.025(2) and 656.726(3). Stats. Implemented: ORS 654.001 to 654.295. Hist: OR-OSHA Admin. Order 2-1997, f. 3/12/97, ef. 3/12/97. Oregon Administrative Rules Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division

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Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division Oregon Administrative Rules AO 1-2019 Division 3 - (c) Preventing uncontrolled retraction. Hydraulic telescoping booms must have an integrally mounted holding device to prevent the boom from retracting in the event of hydraulic failure. - (d) Load line free fall. In each of the following circumstances, controlled load lowering is required and free fall of the load line hoist is prohibited: - (1) An employee is directly under the load. - (2) An employee is being hoisted. - (3) The load is directly over a power line, or over any part of the area extending the Table A of 1926.1408 clearance distance to each side of the power line; or any part of the area extending the Table A of 1926.1408 clearance distance to each side of the power line is within the radius of vertical travel of the load. - (4) The load is over a shaft. - (5) The load is over a cofferdam, except where there are no employees in the fall zone of the load. Stat. Auth.: ORS 654.025(2) and 656.726(4). Stats. Implemented: ORS 654.001 through 654.295. Hist: OR-OSHA Admin. Order 1-2011, f. 2/9/11, ef. 2/9/11. ## 1926.1427 Operator training, certification, and evaluation - (a) General requirements for operators. The employer must ensure that each operator is trained, certified/licensed, and evaluated in accordance with this section before operating any equipment covered under Subpart CC, except for the equipment listed in paragraph (a)(2) of this section. - (1) Operation during training. An employee who has not been certified/licensed and evaluated to operate assigned equipment in accordance with this section may only operate the equipment as an operator-in-training under supervision in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (b) of this section. - (2) Exceptions. Operators of derricks (see 1926.1436), sideboom cranes (see 1926.1440), or equipment with a maximum manufacturer-rated hoisting/ lifting capacity of 2,000 pounds or less (see 1926.1441) are…

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Division 3 AO 1-2019 Oregon Administrative Rules Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division - (i) For purposes of this section, an operator who is an employee of the U.S. military meets the requirements of this section if he/she has a current operator qualification issued by the U.S. military for operation of the equipment. An employee of the U.S. military is a Federal employee of the Department of Defense or Armed Forces and does not include employees of private contractors. - (ii) A qualification under this paragraph is: - (A) Not portable: Such a qualification meets the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section only where the operator is employed by (and operating the equipment for) the employer that issued the qualification. - (B) Valid for the period of time stipulated by the issuing entity. - (b) Operator training. The employer must provide each operator-in-training with sufficient training, through a combination of formal and practical instruction, to ensure that the operator-in-training develops the skills, knowledge, and ability to recognize and avert risk necessary to operate the equipment safely for assigned work. - (1) The employer must provide instruction on the knowledge and skills listed in paragraphs (j)(1) and (2) of this section to the operator-in-training. - (2) The operator-in-training must be continuously monitored on site by a trainer while operating equipment. - (3) The employer may only assign tasks within the operator-in-training's ability. However, except as provided in paragraph (b)(3)(v) of this section, the operator-in-training shall not operate the equipment in any of the following circumstances unless certified in accordance with paragraph (c) of this section: - (i) 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 in the work zone (see 1926.1408(a)(1)), could get within 20 feet of a power line that is up to 350 kV, or withi…