ESTA INTERVIEW Ӏ SAFETY AND TRAINING


CT. What exactly is the Lifting Operations Risk Management guide? TK. This Lifting Operations Risk Management document, or LORM for short, is a guide to good practice. It is not written for the Sarens and the Mammoets of this world; big companies like that have their own in-house expertise. It is for the smaller companies.


Why did you decide to compile it? It was written because we were getting signals from both our members and the marketplace:


smaller companies are increasingly taking on bigger and bigger jobs and the increasing size and complexity means they are running into risks that they did not anticipate at the beginning. So we wanted to give these companies a little more insight into things they might not normally think about.


Can you give an example of the kind of risks you’re referring to? Wind farms are an obvious example. If you are working on a wind site there are all kinds of responsibilities, with different


people responsible for different things. For example, who is responsible for the lighting on the site? Who is responsible for security? Who will admit the ambulance in an emergency? There are all kinds of things like that and they need to be known in advance. When an accident happens it is already too late to discuss them.


So part of the problem is confusion over who carries which responsibilities? Exactly. Increasingly our members


ESTA SAFETY AWARD FOR LIEBHERR'S BLIND SPOT INFORMATION SYSTEM


In April this year ESTA announced the winners of their 2025 Awards of Excellence. In the category for 'innovations in safety' the winner was Liebherr. The company is equipping their new LTM 1110-5.2 mobile cranes with advanced driver assistance systems that increase road safety by detecting blind spots around the crane and signalling that there may be people in front of the crane. In the confines of a jobsite, only trained personnel will be present.


Access is restricted, and some degree of control is available where cranes and people meet. That is not the case on the public roads that the mobile crane has to navigate on its way to and from the jobsite. There the crane shares the space a wide range of other road users Most readers will be familiar with the warning signs carried by large


trucks reminding cyclists and others about blind spots; a mobile crane on the road is even more unwieldy than a truck, with still more blind spots that can potentially cause accidents and injuries. Hence Liebherr’s release of its award-winning Blind Spot


Information System (BSIS). It is to increase safety of road users near mobile cranes when they are on the road. Even with large mirrors the crane driver cannot see the entire area around the crane - there are always blind spots. In road traffic, and on-site when navigating through surrounding infrastructure, there are dozens of factors that he must be aware of. The blind spot information system is operated as standard via a so-called ‘camera wing’ on the vehicle. It carries two integrated digital cameras. If the system detects cyclists or pedestrians, it warns the crane operator visually and acoustically. Children in particular are almost invisible directly in front of the


cab: they are short, and the hook block is located in front of the driver’s cab, partially restricting vision. Despite specially fitted mirrors, visibility is often restricted. Here Liebherr’s Moving Off Information System (MOIS) comes into play: digital cameras on the left and right of the windscreen scan the area and warn the crane driver visually and acoustically of the presence of an adult or a child.


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