29.01.2009

UK to go ahead with tower crane register

The UK Health & Safety Executive has decided to go ahead with an official register of tower cranes. The register will initially be voluntary but could become mandatory at a later date.

It will contain a variety of information including the crane make, model, location, managing organisation and owner. The records will probably be retained at the Health & Safety Laboratory in Derbyshire.

Colin Wood, the head of the UK Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) said: “we will totally support this move if it gives confidence to the general public and extra statutory paperwork can be avoided.”