They are two different documents proving two different things, and one never covers for the other. The distinction costs sites a day of production more often than it should.
A competency card certifies a person. It says this named individual was assessed on this class of equipment and passed, on this date. An equipment certificate certifies a machine. It says this serial number was examined against these standards on this date and was found in this condition.
Where the confusion starts
Both documents get called the crane certificate on site. When the gate asks for the certificate and receives the operator's card, the crane waits while somebody drives back to the office. It is the most avoidable delay in plant mobilization.
A working mobilization checklist
- Equipment certificate, current, matching the serial number on the machine plate.
- Sticker on the machine matching the certificate number.
- Operator card, current, for the exact machine class.
- Rigging certificates for the tackle travelling with the machine.
- Third-party report if the client HSE requirements ask for the full report rather than the certificate.
Five items, checked before the low-bed leaves the yard. It takes ten minutes and it prevents the most expensive kind of delay, which is a crew and a machine standing still at a gate.
We inspect and certify plant and lifting equipment across the Kingdom, and every certificate is verifiable online the moment it is issued.