Among the most useful pieces of equipment found in construction projects are mobile cranes. If the job requires large, heavy materials to be hoisted, transported, or moved, you’ll likely use a mobile ...

The right type of crane can make or break your project. These seven tips will help you make the right choice as quickly as possible. With advancements in technology, lifting cranes have become a lot ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finalized its long-awaited approach to crane operator qualification and certification. 1 The rule, which has followed a tortuous road to ...

Testing crane operators by the capacity and type of machine to be used—which is required under today's federal crane rules—provides meaningful qualification of an operator's skill set. Without that, ...

Cranes are essential for moving heavy beams and erecting multi-story structures. But failing to operate a crane safely can result in property damage, injury and even death. The U.S. Occupational ...

Have you ever looked up at a construction site and wondered just how safe those cranes are? If you have, you certainly are not alone. Since the highly publicized collapse of two tower cranes in New ...

OSU and the Columbus, Ohio, OSHA office hosted this fourth annual safety event in the Fawcett Center on the OSU campus. The event attracted approximately 300 people and offered educational sessions in ...

Eight years after it began the process of finalizing a rule to govern the certification of crane and derrick operators in the construction industry, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

The 2018 crane rule from OSHA provided a framework for establishing operator competency for the construction industry. The operator must be: Trained + Certified/Licensed + Evaluated = Qualified. In ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently issued an equipment/safety hazard alert about an incident in which a mechanic sustained injuries when the boom of his service-truck’s ...

Although the new OSHA Final Rule governing the use of “Cranes and Derricks in Construction” has been in effect since November 8, 2010, we’re finding that some contractors who use lifting equipment in ...