Level B Provisional Certification

The BC Crane Safety Core Theory exam is a monitored online exam. Operators have 90 minutes to answer 40 questions based on the following 15 sections:

1. General crane regulations (3 points)
2. Awareness of energized systems (3 points)
3. Hand signals & Radio communication (3 points)
4. Crane gross & net capacity (2 points)
5. Pre-operation crane inspection & operation (non-crane specific) (3 points)
6. Cranes lifting suspended work platforms (2 points)
7. Identify rigging slings & hardware (2 points)
8. Pre-use inspection of rigging slings & hardware (3 points)
9. Rigging hitches (2 points)
10. Sling capacity charts & tension calculations (6 points)
11. Determine load weight (4 points)
12. Estimate load centre of gravity (2 points)
13. Use of tag lines ( 1 point)
14. Ordinary lift planning (2 points)
15. Critical lift planning (2 points)

The exam is “open book” meaning that you are free to use reference materials when taking the exam.  However, you are not allowed to:

• Receive help from another person while taking the exam.
• Provide help to anyone taking the exam.
• Copy, distribute or receive any exam questions.
• Impersonate any person or have a person impersonate you.
• Use AI or any other computer program to generate answers to exam questions.
• Behave in an aggressive, disruptive, harassing, threatening, or unsafe manner during or after an exam.
• Encourage, assist, enable or cause others to engage or attempt to engage in misconduct with regards to the exam.

(You should be aware of Fulford Certification’s complete Assessment Misconduct Policy prior to taking the exam)

When you login to the exam you need to:

1. Use a computer with one of these browsers: Chrome, Firefox or Edge.
2. Download the Figures booklet (if you have not already done so).
3. Go through the proctoring set-up to confirm your computer camera and microphone are turned on so you can be monitored while taking the exam.
4. You will also need to have government issued photo identification that will be recorded via your camera to confirm your identity.
5. The monitoring software will record your exam and will note any suspicious activity including: test taker doesn’t match photo id, multiple faces in the video, talking, moving out of camera range, etc. Any exam with a high suspicious activity score is reviewed to determine if any exam misconduct has occurred and, if so, what consequences will be imposed as detailed in the Assessment Misconduct Policy.  

Once your exam monitoring is set-up, you have 90 minutes to complete the 40 questions. You must achieve a score of at least 28 to pass the test.  The test can be retaken two additional times for a reassessment fee.