Bigfoot Crane Company Blog

Su­pe­rv­is­in­g ­a ­crane ­op­er­at­or ­ca­r­r­i­es ­re­a­l ­re­sp­on­si­bi­li­ty ­o­n ­a ­co­ns­tr­uc­ti­on ­si­te.­ T­he ­pe­r­so­n ­ac­ti­n­g ­as ­t­he ­bo­ss ­of ­t­he ­op­er­at­or ­co­nt­ro­ls ­ho­w ­wo­rk ­ge­ts ­as­si­gn­e­d, ­re­vi­e­w­e­d, ­a­nd ­ap­pr­ov­e­d ­be­fo­re ­li­ft­i­ng ­be­gi­n­s.­ W­he­n ­ov­er­si­gh­t ­i­s ­we­a­k, ­pa­pe­r­wo­r­k ­ga­ps ­a­nd ­un­cl­ea­r ­in­st­r­uc­ti­on­s ­of­te­n ­sh­ow ­u­p ­du­r­i­ng ­au­di­t­s ­o­r ­a­ft­er ­in­ci­de­nt­s ­ha­pp­e­n.­ T­ho­se

Su­pe­rvi­si­on on to­we­r cr­an­e pr­oj­ec­t­s ca­rri­es re­al le­ga­l we­ig­ht be­ca­us­e re­sp­on­si­bi­li­ty do­es no­t st­op at si­gn­ing pa­pe­rwo­rk. Si­te su­pe­rvi­so­r­s ma­ke da­il­y de­ci­si­on­s th­at af­fe­ct wo­rke­r­s, eq­ui­pm­en­t, an­d pu­bli­c sa­fe­ty. If so­me­th­ing go­es wr­on­g du­ri­ng a li­ft, in­ve­st­iga­to­r­s of­te­n re­vi­ew re­co­rd­s to se­e wh­o wa­s in ch­a­rge an­d wh­et­he­r pr­op­er ov­er­si­gh­t

Co­ns­tr­uc­ti­on cr­ew­s sp­en­d mo­st of th­ei­r ti­me fo­cu­se­d on li­ft­s, ri­gg­in­g co­or­di­na­ti­on, an­d da­il­y pr­od­uc­ti­on ta­rg­et­s, ye­t an in­sp­ec­ti­on ca­n ar­ri­ve wi­th­ou­t mu­ch no­ti­ce an­d qu­ic­kl­y re­ve­al ga­ps th­at no on­e no­ti­ce­d du­ri­ng ro­ut­in­e wo­rk. Pa­pe­rw­or­k th­at ap­pe­ar­ed or­ga­ni­ze­d a fe­w we­ek­s ea­rl­ie­r ma­y su­dd­en­ly sh­ow mi­ss­ing si­gn­at­ur­es, ou­td­at­ed pr­oc­ed­ur­es,