07.09.2011

AmQuip fits TRAM

AmQuip has become the first crane rental company in North America to fit the TRAM -Travel Restraint Access Module - fall prevention system to its cranes.

AmQuip’s TRAM retrofit program is initially targeting its largest telescopic boom cranes, where riggers need access to the top of the crane to assemble attachments. The first units to be equipped are four of its 550 ton Grove GMK 7550 All Terrain cranes, including two with Mega Wing attachments.
The first installation was completed mid-August. The next three installations will be completed by the end of this month.
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The first AmQuip cranes to be equiiped are four Grove GMK7550s

“We have identified 20 of our largest all-terrains as a priority for TRAM,” said Jeff Hammons Amquip’s vice president of risk management. “We take safety seriously and most of our business is with customers who are equally safety sensitive. Neither AmQuip nor its customers can accept employees being unprotected on top of cranes any longer. TRAM provides a safe and convenient solution while still meeting compliance with OSHA’s new Crane and Derrick standard, 1926.1400.”

“We spent a long time researching ways to assemble large cranes in a safer way. When we discovered TRAM, it was a clear choice not just because it is so effective, but because it is also convenient and very easy to use. I have found, in my 20-plus years providing safety and risk management services, that if something is not convenient and comfortable, people won’t use it.”
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The fold up handlbar/anchor point moves along a boom mounted rail

The TRAM system provides a secure handlebar at waist level that can travel the length of the main boom on a rail installed at foot-level. A lanyard or pair of lanyards attach to the handlebar and to the rigger’s harness. By tying off at waist level rather than foot level, the user has no distance to fall in the event of a slip or trip, yet still has total freedom to do the work required.