3 Books Every Crane & Rigging Professional Should Read, Says ITI

Industrial Training International (ITI) has unveiled its list of three books it says every crane and rigging professional should read.

“Whether you are a greenhorn operator or have 40 years of experience lifting loads all over the world, here are three books that every crane, rigging, and load handling professional must have,” it said at the start of a recent content marketing message. The books are:

Crane Accidents: A Study of Causes and Trends to Create a Safer Work Environment

Authored by Jim Wiethorn, PE of Haag Engineering, Crane Accidents uses a sample of over 500 accidents between 1983 and 2013 as an instructional tool. The 221-page paperback provides an overview of causes, trends, and industry specific situations and events that ultimately lead to an accident.

Crane Accidents: A Study of Causes and Trends to Create a Safer Work Environment is available from the ITI Bookstore for $249.

Mobile Crane Support Handbook

An understanding of the design and engineering of supports for mobile crane installations is essential to the majority of load handling activities featuring a mobile crane as the load handling equipment. Mobile Crane Support Handbook by David Duerr, PE does exactly that, while also addressing a full gamut of subjects needed for the engineering of mobile crane support in construction environments.

Other topics covered include:

• Support Reactions From Crawler & Outrigger Supported Cranes
• Soil Bearing Capacity
• Analysis of Subsurface Structures
• Practical Design Methods
• Industry Standards & Regulations

Mobile Crane Support Handbook is available from the ITI Bookstore for $39.00

Rigging Engineering Basics

J. Keith Anderson, Chief Rigging Engineer, offers his contribution to the rigging and hoisting industry with a dynamic, educational title: Rigging Engineering Basics. A comprehensive text for rigging engineers, lift planners, advanced riggers, field engineers, site supervisors, and the like, Rigging Engineering Basics is a must-have reference guide for all personnel involved in rigging and lift planning activities.

Rigging Engineering Basics intends to inform key employees planning rigging operations and point them in the direction of best practices, bring to light pitfalls and how to avoid them, and offer instruction of certain basic rigging engineering tasks.

Rigging Engineering Basics is available exclusively from the ITI Bookstore for $139.