Experts working on the first draft of a new best practice guide on the safe use, inspection and maintenance of rope sheaves on mobile cranes hope to have it available for discussion during ESTA’s autumn meetings in Copenhagen this October. The project was set up by ESTA together with FEM, the European Association of Lifting … Read more
Beyond rules and documents: true progress in safety comes from culture By Blanca Claeyssens Nowadays, almost every company has a SHEQ officer, or even a whole department dedicated to Health and Safety. We have policies and procedures. Clients require HSE plans, prevention plans and detailed risk assessments. There is plenty of documentation available, as well … Read more
A unique public debate on the role of abnormal transport in delivering Europe’s green and military agenda is to be held in the European Parliament on October 15 – and ESTA members have been invited to attend in person. Called a ‘High Level Debate’, it is the latest in a series of actions taken by … Read more
ESTA Director Ton Klijn has made a renewed call for European governments to streamline and harmonize their heavy transport regulations – and boost infrastructure investment – to better support both industrial and military users. He was speaking on Friday at the biennial Internationale Schwerlasttage in Hohenroda in Germany, a respected congress for the heavy‑lift and specialized transport … Read more
ESTA’s permanent Health and Safety Commission is to ask members whether they would be prepared to collect incident and safety data and share it with ESTA in the same way that accident data is used in the airline industry to improve safety. The shared information – such as incident reports, statistics and experiences – would … Read more
ESTA has been invited to speak on reducing risks in heavy transport and lifting at a special meeting to be held during the 10th edition of GIS – the lifting, industrial, port handling and heavy transport exhibition – in Piacenza in Italy later this month. Organised with the support of ESTA’s Italian association member ANNA, … Read more
ESTA has written to the European Commission in support of the recently published White Paper on military mobility – but has said that to be effective the policy needs to be backed up by action to minimise bureaucracy and harmonize national standards for heavy and abnormal transport. The Commission’s document – White Paper for European … Read more
ESTA has been invited to join the advisory board of an influential European research project aimed at modernising road freight movements across Europe in another sign of the increasing awareness of the importance of heavy and abnormal transport to Europe’s economy. The project, called Intelligent Access (IA) for Freight, is being carried out for CEDR, … Read more
ESTA Transport Section President Iffet Türken has been honoured with an award by the board of directors of ESTA’s Turkish member association YMB for her contribution to international cooperation and support for the heavy lift and load engineering industry. At YMB’s recent board meeting in Istanbul, she was presented with a plaque by Ahmed Altunkum, … Read more
Germany’s heavy transport and industry lobby group VI-GST – of which ESTA is a member – has sent a new position paper to the recently elected federal government in Berlin in an attempt to ensure that it delivers on promised improvements to the country’s heavy and abnormal transport regulations. VI-GST – Verbändeinitiative Grossraum und Schwertransporte … Read more