Insights for safer cranes & lifting operations
Wayne Reilly
Executive leader and expert in critical risk management, assisting heavy industry to better understand and control critical risk, coaching Leaders in the field to build capability.
There have been fatalities and serious injuries, particularly in Australia this year, involving cranes and lifting operations, including the recent fatality and multiple serious injury incident in Melbourne this month. I have put together a presentation on my learnings, from investigations, audits and interactions with cranes and lifting operations. This spans a number of organisations in different heavy industry contexts over the past few years.
The presentation is available at: https://www.safetyinsights.com.au/news/ where you will also find other free information resources.
The presentation is not meant to explain fundamental safety principles of cranes and lifting. It is a summary of what can happen, how it can happen and the critical controls and technologies that can be used to help prevent incidents and minimise the risks of cranes and lifting operations.
There is also some guidance on lift planning; control of local hazards in operating areas; inspection and maintenance and competency. I hope this will be helpful to you, at least to frame your thinking around cranes and lifting.
Please contact me for a free consultation about preventing incidents in cranes and lifting operations, or to sharpen your existing approach, it is a critical risk, resulting in many preventable incidents.
For any safety matters, I'm happy to help in anyway I can, even if it is just a phone call or email to connect and bounce ideas around.