Volume 10 Issue 1
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 $5.00
INDUSTRY NEWS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Crane plays crucial role in construction SC&RA hard at work of New Brunswick bridge in Ontario
Working on police escort phase-outs, permitting automation and harmonization
B Y M AT T J O N E S
Photo: Ontario Provincial Police
BY ANDREW SNOOK As the girder is held in place, workers begin the work required to secure it in place. Photos: Morgan Dunham.
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onstruction is underway for a new 240metre bridge over the Petitcodiac River between Moncton and Riverview in New Brunswick. As part of that construction, commuters passing over the existing Gunningsville Bridge have become accustomed to seeing a large mobile crane towering over the site in recent months. The work
on the bridge has been divided into a number of contracts, as companies with varied specialties have taken over different aspects of the job. The major crane operations have been under the purview of Canam-Bridges, which is tasked with erecting the structure and the bearings on the bridge.
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OVERHEAD CRANE SAFETY
A trailblazer for standards in Alberta Judy Mellott-Green committed to improving standards for overhead crane industry
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BY ANDREW SNOOK
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here are few people with more years dedicated to standards in Canada’s overhead crane industry than Judy Mellott-Green. The president and CEO of the All Canadian Training Institute (ACTi) has been active in the industry for nearly three decades, and is just as passionate as ever about promoting safety and improving standards across Canada. continued on page 14
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he Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) have been busy on this side of the Canada-U.S. border, working with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) on the current phase-out of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) escorts in the province for superload permit moves. The phase-out began on July 1, 2018 with a contingency period offered, in which the OPP could fill in until there were an adequate number of newly certified escorts made available through the Certified Superload Escort Program. Effective January 1, 2019 the OPP will stop providing paid duty escorts to assist in the movement of Oversize/Overweight (OS/OW) Superloads. Steven Todd, vice-president of transportation with the SC&RA, says the program is the first of its kind in North America that will fully phase out police escorts. “This is very unique new program and new policy,” he says. “It gave our industry an opportunity for the first time to give serious deliberation of replacing all police escorts as we know it.”
Judy Mellott-Green has been active in the overhead cranes industry for more than three deacdes. Photos: ACTi.