The announcement was contained in its response, published in October, to a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee, which was unveiled in the summer.
Ernie Pierini
Each morning, Rex Weare starts work with a bird’s eye view of the St. John River – but that’s after he climbs 130 feet into the cab of the tower crane he operates.
SC&RA Presents Two Crane & Rigging Project Safety Awards
The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) recently issued two Crane & Rigging Group Project Safety Awards in October.
“This was a complex tandem lift, which required a considerable amount of forward planning to protect the roof structure.
Imagine if corporations adopted the following approach. The company sends an email to its business colleagues inviting each recipient to make a personal charitable contribution to his or her favorite charitable cause upon which the company would make a matching contribution to that cause.
New tower crane safety laws set for the UK
random-cranesThe board of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in the UK, has approved new regulations governing the use of tower cranes following a three-month comment period.
Crane haulers leery of traveling through city
People who haul construction cranes say they are being targeted unfairly by Hamilton police, and the practice is giving the city a business-unfriendly reputation.
Riding Lawn Mower + Crane = Flying Hedge Trimmer
You call that a hedge trimmer? Now, this is a hedge trimmer. Well, it’s actually a riding mower suspended by a crane, but it works just as well. Apparently, it…
A Weightron Bilancial crane scale system is helping Virgin Atlantic Airways keep track of the loads being handled at its Heathrow maintenance hangar. Supplied by Street CraneXpress (SCX), the crane…
Maximum Capacity Media, Fort Dodge, Iowa, hosted its fourth annual Lift and Access Equipment Showcase last week at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale, Ariz.

