The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule extending by three years the deadline for crane operators to be tested. Operators will now have until Nov. 10, 2017, to ...

Container cranes are used to load and unload ships in ports and are critical to port operations. Past earthquakes have highlighted the vulnerability of container cranes to damage from even moderate ...

The Bloomberg administration is set to require tower crane operators to obtain a national certification, a decision that pressures operators' unions to make concessions in ongoing labor talks.

Representatives of standardized testing companies say that crane-operator exams will continue to be administered, though possibly at a slower pace, as the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health ...

This is part of an occasional series about how companies and emerging technologies are reacting to California’s drought. David Shultz had a 625,000-pound problem on his hands. Or, to be more precise, ...

Manitowoc has opened the Product Verification Centre at its Shady Grove, USA facility to scrutinise the components used in its cranes. Components will undergo rigorous performance and working ...

Crane Inspection & Certification Bureau (CICB) Online Assessement Testing is an internet-based multiple-choice testing application evaluates potential or existing employees’ knowledge of OSHA and ANSI ...

You’ve heard of self-driving vehicles. How about self-operating cranes? Union Pacific (UP) acquired five new wide-span cranes that are integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and can operate semi ...

Polyester straps blamed for breaking and spurring a deadly crane collapse held fast during an experiment designed to simulate the disaster, a videotape shows. The experiment, arranged by defense ...