About Crane Crew
BSL Group’s Crane Crew is a team of highly skilled professionals holding over 30 years of experience. We specialise in tower cranes, both hammerhead and luffing cranes. Additionally, we can arrange a crane for hire and a highly specialized crew that is efficient for your site’s specific requirements.
Our experienced crane crew can communicate through different modes of communication like via a 2-way radio, professional whistle calls, or hand signals depending on the dogman’s and driver’s placement. Each member of our crane crew undergoes a high level of training and WPHS requirements regularly. We aim to keep our staff safe and ensure the site is maintained safely and to the highest standards.
Our Experience In Handling Tower Cranes
At BSL Group, we hire our crane crew on a temp and long term basis. Our in-house team have the required extensive experience, skills and knowledge to help achieve an outstanding result. This helps provide the team with a better understanding of the site conditions and how it operates, offers value for money, greater efficiency in execution for pre-cast installs and an overall smoother process.
Our crane crew typically includes a crane operator and two dogmen. Our well-trained and coordinated crane crew always thrives on providing safe and efficient crane operations on a construction site or in an industrial setting. The crane riggers may vary depending on the layout and requirements of the construction site. Get in touch with us at o452 006 969 to explore our services and portfolio.
Productivity
We ensure strong management, training, experience, and excellent communication to maintain optimal productivity. Keeping our crew motivated during challenging times, we provide that work efficiency does not come at the cost of personal well-being.
Safety
We take environmental health and safety very seriously, as our profession involves high risk. Nothing but the best protective gear is provided to our crew, with regular safety training and on-site drills. Not only is this beneficial for us but also for all those who work on-site.
Integrity
Through our induction and training processes, we instil high levels of integrity in all our crane crew and crane riggers. An organisation is as good as the people who drive it, and employee integrity goes a long way in ensuring customer confidence and brand loyalty.
Why Choose BSL for Crane Crew and Rigging Jobs
At BSL, productivity, safety, and integrity are our three governing pillars for success. For over three decades, we have maintained the highest quality and customer satisfaction standards with these three values. Every team member adheres to these virtues to make BSL stand out and deliver excellence.
Through our induction and training processes, we instil high levels of integrity in all our crane riggers and other staff members, as it is an integral part of our business. An organisation is as good as the people who drive it, and employee integrity goes a long way in ensuring customer confidence and brand loyalty.
We ensure strong management, training, experience, and excellent communication to maintain optimal productivity. Keeping our crane riggers motivated during challenging times, we ensure that maintain best practices in terms HSEQ to ensure work efficiency does not come at the cost of personal well-being.
We take environmental health, safety and quality very seriously, as our profession involves high risk. Nothing but the best protective gear is provided to our crew, with regular safety training and on-site drills. Not only is this beneficial for us but also for all those who work on-site.
With a proven track record of reliability and superior service, BSL Group’s crane crew is the first choice for any project.
We are committed to providing an exceptional experience to our clients above and beyond their expectations. The idea is to add maximum value to their dream project and surpass expectations. Our crane crew services are available across Melbourne and the Greater Melbourne region. Get in touch with the friendly team at BSL Group at o452006969 or fill out the form to explore our services and portfolio.
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Crane Riggers and Crew - Frequently Asked Questions
All crane crew members share responsibility for maintaining a safe work environment. A crane operator must ensure safety and efficiency while moving loads. The signal person/dogman must maintain clear visibility of the load and the surrounding area whilst maintaining high levels of positive communication with the operator to ensure the safe movement of all lifts. The rigger is responsible for attaching the load to the crane, selecting the appropriate lifting gear, and ensuring load security. The maintenance crew must ensure the crane’s regular servicing and preventative maintenance by checking the hydraulic system, cables, and other components.
The safety officer with all crew members follow the prescribed safety guidelines. This includes wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and reporting safety concerns to the site supervisor. Before each use, the crane should be thoroughly inspected to ensure all parts are in working order. Brakes, wires, ropes, hooks, and other moving parts must be inspected periodically. The crane’s load limits should never be exceeded.
A crane crew may operate several different types of cranes, mainly including luffing and hammerhead towercranes, mobile cranes, telescopic cranes, crawler cranes, truck-mounted cranes, rough terrain cranes, overhead cranes, loader cranes, floating cranes and railroad cranes.
Proper training in rigging operations is necessary for all crew members covering correct usage of equipment, communication protocols, emergency procedures, and safety regulations. Before the lifting process commences, the weight and balance of the load are accurately calculated to decide the type of rigging gear required and how it should be used.
The operator never exceeds the rated capacity of the rigging equipment or the crane. The crane crew ensures that the sling/chains are properly attached to the load and the crane hook. A specific type of sling/chains are used for the job, avoiding knotting sling twists etc.
The crane crew must ensure regular training for all. Installed equipment should be periodically inspected and certified. Proper load calculation is a prerequisite for the lifting process to start. Comprehendible signals and instructions must be shared by everyone involved in the operation. All crew members should wear appropriate PPE, such as hard hats, safety glasses, high-visibility clothing, and steel-toed boots with whistle and radios so to maintain communication when out of sight of the crane operator or in the case of a technological issue i.e. flat battery on radios. A workable emergency plan must be in place in case of any contingency.
Crane crew operators must conduct an initial walk-around inspection, followed by thorough engine and control checks, covering brakes, clutches, gauges, warning devices, and limit switches. Additionally, operators inspect the wire rope and the hook for cracks and deformations. In the case of mobile crane they must ensure that the outriggers fully extend and retract without difficulty and should not show signs of damage or extreme wear. Projects often require a tailored approach, and operators must perform pre-operational checks as per requirements
Yes, all BSL crane operators have obtained their high risk work tickets and crane operating certificate. Through rigorous training and skill-enhancement workshops, BSL crane operators boast industry-leading expertise in enhancing efficiency, saving time, and ensuring optimum customer satisfaction.