Safety

Dunlop has increased the speed rating of its All Terrain crane tyre following customer demand.

An eight axle All Terrain crane overturned last week on a wind farm in Wöhrden Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

A city inspector who became the poster boy for haphazard oversight after two Manhattan tower cranes collapsed in 2008 was cleared on technicalities of the top charges against him today — but was still convicted of lying on paperwork to shirk inspections.

OSHA is introducing a temporary enforcement policy from next week preventing the use of proximity devices as the sole warning method for cranes working near power lines.

The huge piece of construction equipment is about to go up in the heart of Doylestown, on the site where the new Bucks County Courthouse is being built. The crane will be 175 feet tall, Doylestown Borough officials said.

The government of Ontario, Canada has announced a safety blitz this month and next, checking crane safety on construction sites and surface mines across the province.

The number of tower crane accidents in Dubai and the UAE is not significantly different from Europe, says the head of the European crane manufacturers association.

A 3,000-kilogram load of concrete descends from a tower crane into a busy intersection during rush hour. A mobile crane graces an overhead power line, electrocuting the crane operator. A tower crane tips over – and crushes a worker. These catastrophic events could happen at any construction site that fails to properly address hazards, according to workplace health and safety experts.

A demonstration has been staged outside the Department of Work and Pensions to highlight concerns over scrapping tower crane regulations

The US based crane operator certification company, National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO), has announced that it will issue colour-coded CCO cards for operators, riggers, signal persons, crane inspectors, practical examiners, and auditors.