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Every year, on April 28th, we honour the memory of Canadian workers who have lost their lives due to work-related injuries and occupational diseases. The annual Day of Mourning is an opportunity to remember those fallen workers and to re-commit to creating safer workplaces. In 2010, 143 B.C. workers lost their lives due to workplace injury and disease.

Maximum Capacity Media (MCM) will take its Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) to Canada for a two-day educational, networking event and exhibition, October 12-13, 2011, Fantasyland Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta. Whether you work with mobile or overhead cranes, CRC Canada will provide opportunities to improve the management of crane operations before, during, and after the lift.

Advancing technology requires increasingly future-proof, flexible and operator safety conscious designs. One of the main issues facing the remote control sector is the ongoing battle for air-space as the number of remote controls in most work environments increases.

Michael Brown, 46, until recently a tower crane operator with Kier Construction in the UK, is running a race from John O’Groats in northern Scotland to Lands End in Cornwall. The race is in aid of the charity Project Mobility 4×4, which equips off road vehicles for amputees coming back from the various conflicts around the world.

A crane operator had to be rescued by fire fighters yesterday after the straddle carrier/crane he was operating toppled over, trapping him in the cab, at Seaforth Docks in Liverpool

A man died yesterday on a building site in the small village of Cártama to the north of Málaga, after the jib of a tower crane ‘broke its back’ and crashed down onto the scaffold he was working from, throwing him from the third floor of the structure to the ground.

If a shocking budget crisis, soaring unemployment and surprisingly flat population growth stuns Californians, consider what it’s like to run a business there. If you’re Peninsula Crane and Rigging, the correct term is “trying” to run a business there. Says Joe Bauer, president and sales director for the San Jose-based company, “This is still Silicon Valley, but it’s not what it once was.

Six children have been killed near Tokyo after they were hit by a mobile crane while walking to school. The tragic accident occurred this morning in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, the children – five boys and a girl – included three nine year olds, one 10 year old and two 11 year olds.

Huisman has installed the world’s largest offshore mast crane onboard the heavy lift ship Seven Borealis, says the company. The Netherlands-based lifting, drilling and subsea specialist said the four-day installation of the 5,000 tonne lifting capacity crane was its heaviest and most complex project to date.

Conducting crane inspections according to the new OSHA 1926.1400 crane regulation requires that the inspector also be familiar with many other standards. Among the standards the regulation has incorporated by reference is ASME B30.5 (2004). The full list of incorporated by reference documents are listed in 1926.6.