Lifting Safety

Hoist rope for mobile cranes made from synthetic fibre has been launched by manufacturer Samson and crane maker Manitowoc.

Industrial Training International (ITI), which specializes in crane, rigging and lifting educational courses, is launching a new course aimed at providing foundation-level knowledge in rigging engineering.

UK contractor Bouygues must pay £250,000 five years after Portuguese worker Guilherme de Oliveira died during the construction of an extension at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, UK.

IMT will showcase its 40/275 articulating crane at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014, March 4 – 8 in Las Vegas.

The Crane & Rigging Conference and Industrial Crane &Hoist Conference (CRC/ICHC) will return to Houston in late 2014.

Crane operators competing in the Crane & Rigging Hot Line and CIC Crane Operator Skills Championship in Las Vegas next month include relative newcomers to the field as well as veterans with 35-plus years of experience.

Ruger Industries Inc. has announced a new “rider” style floor crane. These portable cranes are ideal for the handling of heavy items that require transport over long distances within a plant or warehouse.

Seriously injuring or fatally injuring a person at work is a strict liability offence and the only defence against such prosecution is a due diligence defence

Liebherr has issued a statement this morning on the incident at the end of November at the Itaquerao Stadium in São Paulo, in which a 1,350 tonne capacity LR 11350 crawler crane collapsed killing two site workers

Emaar Square is one of Turkey’s largest private developments, and the Liebherr cranes are being used to meet all of the project’s high-rise lifting requirements.