Safety

The Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association (SC&RA) and Equipment Training Solutions, LLC (ETS) have rolled out a comprehensive Rigger Safety Training Course. The course closely follows American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) B30.9, B30.10, B30.23, B30.26, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 1910.184 and 1926.251, and various industry publications. An easy-to-use, interactive CD-ROM incorporates:

Two fact sheets have recently been posted to the OSHA Web site to provide assistance complying with Subpart CC of the cranes and derricks in construction final rule. The cranes-qualified-rigger-factsheet* fact sheet is a guide for determining if a worker is qualified to properly rig the load for a particular job.

The superstructure of boom/utility truck was ripped from its truck while installing a sign support in Augusta Georgia yesterday. The combined crane/work platform owned by Sign Care Carolina was placing the heavy steel base for a new billboard on a used car lot when the crane’s superstructure broke free from its mounting.

While the labour ministry completes its review of a tower crane collapse in Thornhill, Ont. in which the operator escaped with only minor injuries, all eyes are on crane safety in Ontario.

A boom truck tipped over in Wychmere harbour, Harwich, Cape Cod, Massachussets, yesterday after the ground gave way beneath one of its front outriggers. The crane, which is owned by locally based Baxter Crane was lifting a section of a wood framed building , when the outrigger punched through the ground and virtually flipped, with its boom nose ending up in the water.

It is necessary to get crane certification Maryland. A new rule has come out regarding it from OSHA. It includes new requirements for those who operate cranes. The rules regarding crane operation have not changed since 1971. That is forty years without a change, and the construction industry saw the need to update those rules, in terms of safety.

A tower crane accident occurred in Cologne this weekend causing damage to a building and a car below, but thankfully no injuries were reported. We have few details on the accident, which occurred in the Rudolfplatz in central Cologne on Saturday.

Construction contractors, proprietors of container handling yards, responsible persons of property management companies and proprietors of establishments with outdoor work should watch out for weather conditions and adopt contingency measures to ensure the occupational safety and health of their workers.

A 280 tonne lattice boom truck crane left the road on Friday and plunged into a ditch, after completing a lift in Astoria,the crane, an older Demag on a Faun carrier is owned by Portland based Campbell Crane & Rigging.

Crews at the Port of Vancouver are helping move some extra-large packages: oil modules weighing 85 tons. The equipment, which arrived Monday, is bound for the Kearl Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada, where it will be assembled and used to extract oil from sand.