Volume 10 Issue 3
MAY/JUNE 2019 $5.00
SECURITY
E N T E R TA I N M E N T
Is your site secure? Plan from the get-go, experts say
Elevating the performance Hoist systems in arenas support entertainment events Rogers Place in Edmonton uses a J.R. Clancy hoist system to support and control their centre-hung score clock and video display. Photo credit: Andy Devlin/Oilers Entertainment Group.
B Y M AT T J O N E S
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ere in the pages of Crane & Hoist Canada, we frequently talk about the cranes and heavy lifting involved in the construction of facilities such as large arenas. But there’s also some significant heavy lifting that takes place after these venues are up and running. Hoists and winches play an important logistic role in allowing modern entertainment venues to serve sports events, concerts and everything in between. continued on page 14
CRAC NEWS
CRAC coming to Charlottetown BY ANDREW SNOOK
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he Crane Rental Association of Canada is celebrating its 21st conference and annual general meeting at the Delta Prince Edward in Charlottetown, P.E.I. from June 5 to 8, 2019. The conference and annual general meeting will feature the presentation of the second annual CRAC Safety Awards and the Boom Dolly Research Committee Report; as well as featured speaker David Colletto, CEO of Abacus Data, an expert on millennials who produces the largest re-occurring report on millennials in Canada; and presentations on the Amazon effect on the crane industry; Indigenous engagement; detection and prevention of substance abuse in the workplace; and a presentation from Manitowoc Cranes. < Mammoet Canada’s Tim Sittler discusses the progress of the CRAC Boom Dolly Research Committee during the 2018 CRAC conference in Winnipeg. continued on page 12
B Y S AU L C H E R N O S
wo years ago, a young woman made headlines after she was spotted in the middle of the night atop a tower crane in downtown Toronto. On her own steam, the woman crawled along the boom and reached a pulley block before a firefighter rappelled from the crane’s arm and whisked her to safety. Then, last summer, a woman was reported to have fallen asleep inside the operator’s cab 50 metres above another Toronto construction site. While the judgement of these incidents as newsworthy may have been sparked by the gender of the climbers, one veteran Toronto operator told CBC News that, in nearly five years at his prominent high-rise site, he frequently found evidence of rooftoppers and other thrill-seekers breaking in and illicitly climbing his crane. Experts say incidents like these, along with thefts and vandalism at construction sites, often involve or potentially endanger cranes and suggest protection may need beefing up.
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