Mobile Crane Inspections: A Comprehensive Guide
Note: This comprehensive guide aims to provide you with a one-stop resource for all your mobile crane inspection needs. Much of this crane safety content consists has been consolidated from our previous blogs; and Total Equipment Training has incorporated the latest updates regarding crane inspections to ensure accuracy and relevance.…
OSHA Rigging Training Requirements
This article was originally written over two years ago. Total Equipment Training has reviewed and updated the content to make it more accurate to the current data. Rigger Qualifications and Certifications Rigging is a critical part of construction and heavy industry, ensuring the safe lifting and movement of massive objects.…
How To Become a Crane Operator
By becoming a certified mobile crane operator, you will become eligible for operating a crane on construction and building sites where heavy materials are moved frequently. The job of a crane operator is hard, yet rewarding work. It requires a considerable amount of practice and professional training. Here’s everything you…
CRANE ACCIDENTS: CAUSE AND AVOIDANCE
The construction industry ranks highly in both the frequency and severity of accidents that occur in the workplace. This is understandable, as the industry is a leading employer that utilizes powerful machines to move great loads over heights and distances. Consideration of safety has become so essential, that regulatory bodies…
CHOOSING THE RIGHT BUCKET TRUCKS FOR YOUR JOB
Bucket trucks, also called boom trucks, are versatile pieces of mechanical equipment employed in several industries such as agriculture, construction, warehousing, forestry, electric, and utility. As the name implies, their base is a (diesel or gasoline-powered/hybrid) truck, fixed with a boom, with a man-carrying bucket or platform attached to the…
Front-End Loader/Backhoe Safety
The earliest recorded appearance of a tractor unit equipped with a front loader and a ‘back hoe’ is in 1953 in the United Kingdom by inventor Joseph C. Bamford. That first machine that Joe Bamford built started out as a general-purpose farm tractor. Joe added the two most useful tools…
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
Construction and industry are core parts of today’s world. With their growth and development, both the necessity and awareness to carry out work in these industries safely have become essential. In turn, safety equipment, protocols, and procedures have been implemented worldwide, and even integrated into law. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)…
MOBILE ELEVATED WORK PLATFORMS / AERIAL WORK PLATFORMS
Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPs), formerly known as aerial work platforms enable personnel to access work areas at moderate heights. Due to their versatility and wide application in use of MEWPs, ANSI (American National Standards Institute), the national standards and regulations authority, revised policies and standards that employers and equipment…
OSHA HARD HAT REGULATIONS 2023
Ever since their invention in 1919 as the ‘Hard Boiled Hat’, hard hats have proven themselves invaluable in protecting their wearers’ heads. Their effectiveness is so significant that governments and safety regulation authorities around the world -such as OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) have made it necessary by law…
LOAD CHARTS: PLANNING A LIFT
Heavy equipment manufacturers always include several articles of reading and reference material for the proper use of their implements. Important among these is the load chart. It entails load capacities for lifts (with an emphasis on load limits) when the equipment is in different configurations of operation. This information is…