WHAT PART 14 ACTUALLY NAMES.
In B.C., WorkSafeBC enforces the Regulation — not a vibe called CSA, and not ASME B30 as one book. Mobile is Z150. Tower is Z248. B30 is a series, and only the volumes written into the Regulation are law.
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FEATURED — RIGGING
A TICKET
ISN'T
COMPETENCY.
A qualification tells you what someone has been trained to do. Competency tells you whether they can actually do it.
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READ STORY →SAFETY
WHY PROVEN IS PUBLIC.
If people have to ask permission to see how you expect the work to be done, you do not have a safety program. You have a filing cabinet.
READ STORY →SIX THINGS TO CHECK BEFORE YOU TAKE THE LOAD.
Not a poster. Six things that, if they are wrong, the hook should not leave the ground.
READ STORY →WHEN A SWP ISN'T REALLY A SWP.
A safe work procedure that cannot be used on the day is theatre. It exists to be shown, not followed.
READ STORY →RIGGING
HEIGHT OVER LENGTH IS THE ANGLE.
You do not need a protractor on the hook. Measure sling length and vertical height. sin θ = H / L. Then you can use the tension formula.
READ STORY →IF YOU CAN'T USE SIN(), DON'T RIG THE ANGLE.
Sling tension is not a feeling. For a two-leg bridle, T = W / (2 × sin θ). If you cannot do that, you cannot claim the angle is safe.
READ STORY →WHAT A GOOD RIGGER ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE.
It is not the loudest person on the steel. It is the one who finds the centre of gravity before anyone finds the radio.
READ STORY →CRANES
SIN THE HEIGHT. COS THE RADIUS.
A mobile crane boom is a right triangle. Height is L × sin θ. Radius from the pin is L × cos θ. That is boom geometry — not a load chart.
READ STORY →WHAT YOUR CRANE CREW SHOULD KNOW BEFORE THEY ARRIVE.
If the first time they see the machine, the load and the site is when they park, you have already spent the briefing.
READ STORY →THE LIFT LOOKED SIMPLE. IT WASN'T.
The lifts that go badly are often the ones nobody bothered to treat as a lift. Small, familiar, 'we've done this.'
READ STORY →PEOPLE
INDUSTRY
THE WORK.
HOW IT IS DONE.
Standards, the lift, and the procedures people work to.
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