Safety

As investigators seek the reason for a catastrophic crane accident on the West Side of Manhattan last week, a battle is raging over efforts to change the licensing of crane operators who labor high above the streets.

WHECO Corporation, the nations’ leading crane and capital equipment structural repair and restoration services company, has launched an educational blog, The WHECO Crane Repair Blog that will focus on crane repair and restoration.

A national register for cranes does nothing to improve safety, is an unnecessary cost to construction firms and should be abolished, the British workplace health and safety regulator says.

A man was seriously injured on Friday when the jib of a luffing jib tower crane came down in Singapore. The crane was working on a site next to the National University Hospital site on South Buona Vista Road, when the failure occured.

Following the opening of four learning centers in 2011, Rigging Institute, Knoxville, Tenn., has partnered with more than a dozen rigging shops, rigging gear suppliers, and manufacturers across the country in 2012.

The 20 tonne Franna crane, belonging to Glendenning-based crane rental company Borger Cranes, was travelling down the F3 freeway at 7.30am when its boom struck the bridge.

Bishop Lifting Products (BLP), Houston, Texas, is now printing QR codes on its synthetic sling tags. The QR code is a 2-D barcode that can be scanned by a smart phone’s camera.

Manlift Middle East held an on-site safety awareness day for the contractors and sub-contractors working on a major hotel project in Abu Dhabi, this weekend.

The findings from an investigation into a serious crane and working at height incident at the Kvaerner offshore yard in Verdal, Norway last month has been published.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined a New Hampshire construction company $167,000, attributing the proposed fines to safety violation standards which resulted in a worker falling to his death from scaffolding.