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products to an expanded customer base throughout North America. CIS will be selling a variety of Bushman


products to its existing customer base in the metal, marine and construction industries, including vertical lifting and floor-based material handling solutions. Tom Schiller, President of CIS, says “Our goal is to provide our customers with the highest-quality, heavy-duty below-the-hook material handling equipment, and we are delighted to offer Bushman’s well-engineered and creative products.” Bushman Equipment was recently voted the 2019 Number One brand of material handling equipment by readers of Metal Center News Magazine for the fourth year in a row. Pete Kerrick, General Manager of


Bushman, states “We look forward to working together with CIS to introduce our products to new markets and industries and will be working closely together with them to provide the best products to meet their customers’ needs.” Founded in 1970 as Contractors & Industrial


Supply Co. in Nashville, Tennessee USA, CIS specializes in practical, common-sense rigging


and crane solutions for the international Steel; Marine; Electrode-Handling and Light & Sound industries. Learn more at www.cisrigging.com/ Bushman Equipment, founded in 1950,


provides custom engineered solutions for material handling problems, including coil grabs and lifters; drum tilters; motorized hook blocks; ladle hooks and beams; lifting tongs; and other equipment for load weighing, roll lifting and vertical lifting. Learn more at www.bushman.com/ y


Rope and Sling Receives ISO 45001:2018


> Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) has completed migration to ISO 45001:2018, the replacement for OHSAS 18001 certification. ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements


for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill


health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance. Erin Thomas, HSE (health, safety and


environmental) coordinator at RSS, said: “It made sense for us to migrate early, as our 18001 certification would have expired this year. It’s notable that 45001 pays closer attention to the identification and evaluation of risk versus the previous certification that was more predominantly concerned with the control of hazards, for example.” RSS has held OHSAS 18001 certification


since December 2013; it covers activities at the company’s de facto headquarters in Pyle, Wales but, as Thomas said, its five other facilities are closely audited to ensure they meet the same management system standards. ISO 45001:2018 is applicable to the OH&S risks under an organization’s control, taking into account factors such as the context in which it operates and the needs and expectations of its workers and other interested parties. Steve Hutin, managing director at


RSS, said: “Practically, ISO [International


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