This article emphasizes the importance of safety standards and codes developed by ASME for ensuring construction safety. Within the committee framework managed by ASME, the B30 standards committee is always looking to incorporate the industry's latest technological advances and best practices. While the basic principles of ancient machines are still applicable in many modern lifting devices, advances in materials and technology have allowed for cranes to be adapted to aid in accomplishing difficult and unusual tasks. Some cranes are even used to erect other cranes, which then go on to build the skyscrapers that dot our skyline. Even with all these changes, ensuring safety is just as important today as it was in 1916. ASME is leading the way in helping to ensure cranes can be a common and essential part of the everyday landscape.
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Safety Overhead
For 100 years ASME's B30 Standards have Worked to Ensure that Cargo and Construction Cranes are Used Safely.
Kathryn Hyam is a project engineering advisor with ASME Standards & Certification, Safety Codes and Standards.
Patricia Reddington is Director of Safety Codes and Standards.
Mechanical Engineering. Sep 2016, 138(09): 46-51 (6 pages)
Published Online: September 1, 2016
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Hyam, K., and Reddington, P. (September 1, 2016). "Safety Overhead." ASME. Mechanical Engineering. September 2016; 138(09): 46–51. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2016-Sep-3
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