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CRANE ACCIDENTS: CAUSE AND AVOIDANCE

Crane Operator Training
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…
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CHOOSING THE RIGHT BUCKET TRUCKS FOR YOUR JOB

Heavy Equipment Training
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…
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Front-End Loader/Backhoe Safety

Heavy Equipment Training
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…
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CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

Safety and Training Tips
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)…
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MOBILE ELEVATED WORK PLATFORMS / AERIAL WORK PLATFORMS

Heavy Equipment Training
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…
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MOBILE CRANE ACCIDENTS

Crane Operator Training, Industry News
Accidents in the workplace are unfortunately inevitable. The means to cope with this hard fact is to mitigate the effects of these accidents. Mobile cranes, a core component of the heavy and construction industries’ equipment range, are no exception to experiencing accidents. These accidents may lead to the damage of…
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Job Site Safety Training

Safety and Training Tips
The construction, mining and heavy industries bring man and machine together to create amazing structures, modify the environment to suit our needs, and extract valuable resources that push technology and development on global scales. Like any other place of work, these industries are prone to accidents. The difference is the…
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BOOM TRUCKS

Heavy Equipment Training
Safely lifting and moving loads is a core part of the heavy and construction industries. Several implements have been developed to help achieve this, common among them being the crane. They come in a variety of configurations all specialized to the type of work they are intended for. On smaller…
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Overhead Cranes

Crane Operator Training
Lifting heavy loads is a daily necessity of the heavy and construction industry. As such, several implements have been developed and utilized to make this not only possible, but efficient and safe as well. Among the most widely applied utilities in this category is the crane. Mobile cranes are wheeled…
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