Rigging Safety

Ensuring that equipment is properly specified and fit for purpose is clearly critical to any safe lifting program. However, the fact remains that most accidents are the result of human error.

The World Crane and Transport Summit 2013 opened on 29 October to an international audience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. More than 250 industry professionals registered for the event at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in central Amsterdam.

Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has carried out a large number of surprise inspections focused on crane safety, following several recent incidents.

Competitors in the Crane & Rigging Hot Line & CIC Crane Operator Skills Championship next March in Las Vegas, Nev., will be operating in comfort and style.

Spotted by a reader in Perth, Western Australia, men riding the load on a new build construction site.

A lattice truck crane overturned yesterday in Maplewood, near Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota trapping the crane operator in his cab.

Almost half of building sites checked by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) failed basic checks particularly when working at height.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order for two MacGregor active heave-compensated (AHC) offshore cranes from a Turkish shipyard.

A tower crane collapsed at the site of a new hotel in Dubai on Saturday killing three and seriously injuring a further five.

A crawler crane operating with long boom and jib flipped over backwards on a construction site in Singapore yesterday. No was injured in the incident.