The hazards of unfortunate crane accidents can be avoided by various precautions

The heavy load operating cranes and the other lifting equipment has particularly become a very common practice in various industrial contexts as electronic cranes are very widely used in the various construction and the factory sites throughout the nooks and corners of the world. The increased volume of the traffic, of the surface of the working areas and of the amount of the heavy loads in order to profit from the economies of scale means that these handling machines deal with the several hundred of the weights every day. With an increasing use of the heavy weight cranes, come a higher number of the probable crane accidents that in the best scenario result in the production delays and in the worst ones lead to the loss of the precious human lives.

The various effective researches, the extensive surveys and the recent studies show that the main cause for the crane accidents during the crane operation is lack of stability of the particular machine. This can be caused for a numerous reasons such as the surface where the crane is particularly positioned not being very uniform, the load to be lifted is exceeding the weight or the size of the crane is actually able to handle, or the cranes hoist not being positioned at the gravity centre of the load. For measuring the crane’s load, the maximum load capacity, a crane limit switch is being particularly inserted in all the modern electronic cranes that are being manufactured in the recent times.

Incidents that particularly result in the loss of the precious human lives while the overall operations of the heavy handling machinery are in the majority of the cases due to cases of the electrocution. The proper installation and the dismantling of the heavy weight cranes parts are also a very frequent cause for these tragic events, as are crane components falling because of the faulty set up procedures while manufacturing.

In the particular case of the quays and the commercial ports, the crane accidents related to the crane operation in the container terminals represent as much as 30% of the entire asset costs. The most common cause of the asset damage in such the contexts is the impact between the booms and the ships from which the loads are being particularly taken. Other frequent issues are very well related to the hoists, the ropes, the chains and the spreaders which not being at their best condition and to some defective communication systems between the employees.

The lifting procedures do in fact involve the several professional profiles among which the supervisor, the driver or the operator of the crane and the people responsible for the crane and the load position warning signals. It is particularly very indispensable that these people receive the proper training and the overall certifications before ever entering the load handling site, as well as an efficient communication method that allows them to exchange the required information and the warnings while avoiding the coordination issues between the equipment, the people and the surrounding area. The rotary limit switches are also one of the major components of the electronic cranes to avoid all the major unfortunate crane accidents.