Lifting Safety

Crane Institute Certification (CIC) in the USA has added a specific designation for friction crane operators to its training certification cards.

A boom truck lifting a large air conditioning unit in Mentor, Ohio yesterday overturned, with the boom coming down on to a row of parked cars.

Another Jost tower crane jib collapsed yesterday on a building under construction in Croydon, London during a storm.

A loader crane overturned while lifting a generator in the city of Bath early yesterday.

One man died and another was injured when a crawler crane overturned at a metro construction site in Saidapet, Chennai, India today.

Association of Crane & Rigging Professionals (ACRP) announce that they have opened the nomination process for 2014 Top Trainers. Nominations will be accepted until July 31, 2014.

Sixteen crane operators from the United States and Canada will move onto the Crane & Rigging Hot Line & CIC Skills Championship, which will be held in March 6-7 at…

Liebherr has introduced a boom upgrade kit for its LR 1600/2 crawler crane which increases lifting capacities by up to 20 percent and extends the heavy duty lift height.

European tower crane manufacturers have produced new guidance to emphasise that their machines are not designed to be used as fairground rides.

IPAF is welcoming a paper by FEM (Fédération Européenne de la Manutention – the European manufacturers’ association for material handling equipment), which reiterates that tower cranes are designed to lift loads, not people.