I'm currently working for Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering as an Appointed Person on the challenging Blackfriars Railway Station re-development.
I've been in the lifting game for 24yrs now, (1986 doing my first lift) as an operator, supervisor and on the ground setting up safe systems of work for Tower cranes, Mobile cranes and Crawler cranes. Too many accidents and too many funerals means there are serious problems out there in the lifting game. You cannot, and should not, become complacent when a lift is to be planned and carried out. All multi-crane sites should have a full time Appointed Person on site, responsible for setting up a safe system of work for all lifting operations. Let's put safety first! Let's get it right !!
