Safety

Committed to crane safety, CICB announces that all third-party OSHA Mobile, Overhead and Tower Crane Inspections will be performed by a Nationally Certified Crane Inspector, ensuring that customers receive the highest level of service.

A boom lift overturned in Qatar the week before last, we have been led to believe that no one was injured in the incident, the big question is what caused it?.

The UK’s Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has published a good practice guide for tower cranes working alongside railways.

A lattice boom crawler crane being transported on a barge in Oldenburg, Germany has overturned after coming into contact with overhead power lines.

A tower crane crashed onto the roof of apartment block in Vienna on Saturday after part of the slab it was sitting on broke away.

Crane Institute Certification (CIC) announces that it achieved accreditation for four of its crane operator certification programs.

CCO certification reached a historic milestone last month when the 100,000th person to be certified through the nationally accredited program since its launch in April 1996 received his certification card.

Firefighters from West Pierce Fire and Rescue scaled a massive tower crane, then lowered a gurney with a mock victim 175 feet to the ground during a training exercise at the Chambers Creek Regional Waste water Treatment Plant.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the demand for quality training and certification programs for operators, riggers and safety personnel.

State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) around the country have discovered that night jobsites are safer and more efficient for a number of reasons.