Crane Operator Training

Lift-It Manufacturing, a worldwide leader in the supply of quality rigging and training, is proud to announce the opening of a new Learning Center at company headquarters in Pomona, CA.

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is joining with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to support a new Fall Prevention Campaign to help reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in the construction industry caused by falls while working at height.

Questions regarding the safety of crane operations on construction sites throughout Canada are being asked following the toppling over of a crane which bought down hydro poles and power lines, some of which fell onto a Toronto Transit Commission bus carrying more than two dozen passengers.

A woman was trapped in her vehicle yesterday in the town of Howland, Maine after a boom truck travelling with its boom raised pulled down overhead power lines, causing them to drop onto her car.

A boom truck overturned with the boom coming to rest on a house in Newark, New Jersey yesterday while removing a tree from the back yard

Crane operators on building and construction sites throughout Australia must maintain sufficient clearances between cranes and other plant and structures to avoid contact or collision, a workplace organisation has warned.

There has been another fatal crane incident on one of India’s major metro projects in Chennai last Wednesday night.

The Crane Manufacturers Association of America, Inc. (CMAA) has released Specification 79, the newly revised 2012 Crane Operator’s Manual.

MCM Events is delighted to name the first members of the Canadian Hoisting & Rigging Safety Council (CHRSC), which will be inaugurated at its Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada on Sept. 13-14 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta.

A large boom truck overturned in the East Flat Rock area of Hendersonville North Carolina yesterday, slicing a house in two. Thankfully no one was injured.