Crane Operator Training

Photos sent to us by a reader show one of the craziest examples of working at height we have seen for some time.

Many sectors of the global construction market have been somewhat quiet in recent years but Australia is a notable exception.

The union representing outside city workers in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is applauding a coroner jury’s recommendations into the 2009 death of a worker who was fatally crushed by a mobile crane.

A boom truck overturned in Milwaukee on Friday as it was unloading and placing steel beams and landed across four cars, one of which was occupied.

A boom truck working in a street in Boston, Massachusetts, last week overturned when it slewed over the short rigged side of the crane.

This award is presented to certified crane operators who exhibit exemplary work achievements while accumulating 10,000 consecutive man-hours and recording zero accidents and incidents. Winners represent nine different companies:

Canadian Occupational Safety is pleased to launch the 2014 Safety Leader of the Year award, sponsored by North by Honeywell and Miller by Honeywell.

Contractors know that brand-specific specifications should not be used in bid guidelines when it comes to equipment and products.

A number of readers have alerted us to the fact that exceptionally heavy rains earlier this year has left the ground soft in places and undermined previously firm ground.

A Bloomberg administration plan to open the New York construction scene to out-of-town crane operators — long tangled up in litigation from the city’s crane operators’ union – may be further hindered by a new bill that would require two years of experience for operators to become licensed.