The tower cranes are not recreational equipment: Ipaf celebrates the positioning of FEM and the commitment of Conexpo

The tower cranes serve to elevate loads, no people.

Ipaf receives favorablemente the document of position published by the group of products for cranes and equipment of elevation of the FEM, where remains clear that the towers crane are designed and built to elevate loads, no people, and do not have to be employed with recreational ends. At the same time it has confirmed that such “walks“in crane will not be allowed in the Conexpo-With/Agg.

The FEM (Fédération Européenne of the Manutention) is the European Association of Manufacturers of Equipment for the Manipulation of Materials. In his report of 7 November of 2013, the group of products of the FEM for cranes and equipment of elevation, subgroup for tower cranes and port, declares that: "The towers crane are designed and built essentially to elevate loads (planned use). Any another use is not allowed by the manufacturers. If an user decides to use a crane tower for an end that contradicts the planned use indicated by the manufacturer, the user will do it under his own responsibility and will have to realizar an evaluation of risks according to the rule of valid labour hygiene in the country.”

“AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers) And his fair Conexpo-With/Agg of the 4 to 8 March in The Vegas do not go to allow said recreational offer in the fair”, as it confirms us To the Cervero, vice-president of marketing and development of global business of AEM. “It would contradict our exposed criteria in the document of position of Pcsa (Power Crane and Shovel Association), an office of AEM, as well as the regulation of the fair. Anyway, we encourage to the display units to present his demonstrations, whenever it treat of applications of the real world and no of recreational shows. This is the message that want to do arrive to all the display units and that will reiterate in our notifications to the display units as it approach the date of the fair.”

“Seems me inconceivable allow the use of towers crane for recreational ends in the Intermat, all time that this fair devotes to promote the hygiene in the construction and the professional use of the machinery of construction”, comments Maryvonne Lanoe, director of Intermat.

“The members of Ipaf will not remain of arms crossed in front of such flagrant contempt of all the campaigns of hygiene directed to guarantee that the temporary work in height was realizar by operators with learning, employing machinery designed for the elevation of people”, said Tim Whiteman, executive director of Ipaf. “Although it is possible that this type of recreational walks do not contravene the local legislation, himself that vulnera the principles of hygiene and the best practices of the sector.

The falls from height keep on being the main cause of death by labour accidents in Europe and EE UU. The entertainments circenses do not have fit in the sector of the machinery of elevation and the construction. We celebrate the statements of the organisers of Intermat and AEM. The motorised access is a safe and effective method to elevate people to realizar temporary works to height. Our sector is safe and aspire to that it follow being it”.

The said report of the FEM of November of 2013 does echo of a previous document, dated in May of 2011, in which it declared that: “The mobile cranes never would have to use with recreational ends, for example the elevation of people in shows, jumping, dinners to height or elevation of other structures with people on or under them.”