New lifting standards arrive in Bowen Basin

摘要

Coal mining companies in Central Queensland's Bowen 'Basin and the contractors involved in the associated engineering and maintenance works are now seeing a new set of standards emerge in crane hire services. The new standards are bringing with them new safety margins which include the demanding disciplines of CraneSafe certification. The new approach for the Bowen Basin has been introduced by the crane hire group BOOM Logistics Ltd. BOOM, a national company with operations elsewhere in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, specialises in crane work, It entered the crane hire market in the Bowen Basin in a serious way when it acquired the crane hire business of Brambles Industries Bowen Cranes. BOOM is now operating from depots in Moranbah, Dysart, Blackwater and Mackay. "The CraneSafe accreditation system is a set of safety standards developed by the Crane Industry Council of Australia (CICA) which involves crane hire companies submitting their fleet to independent annual safety audits," BOOM Logisits" Brian Heddle said. "Cranes that comply to the standards carry the CraneSafe decal to signify compliance. And, BOOM is the only crane hire company to adopt CraneSafe Australia wide," Heddle added.