Crane Industry Services company news

CIS Demo Event Attendees Praise the Benefits of Training with a CM Labs Crane Simulator

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Crane Industry Services, LLC recently took delivery of a Vortex Edge Plus portable crane training simulator produced by CM Labs Simulations. To welcome the arrival of the new simulator, CIS hosted a demonstration event with CM Labs at the CIS Centered on Safety facility in Carrollton, Ga. The portable crane operations simulator garnered a lot of attention during the event, reports LD Stutes of CM Labs and Debbie Dickinson, CEO of Crane Industry Services.… Read more...

Tips for Developing High Performing Teams

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Establishing task-based work assignments is the foundation of a realistic, consistent, and reliable path to risk mitigation and accident prevention in the office and on the job. The concept begins with identifying personnel and equipment protocols, as Debbie Dickinson, CEO of Crane Industry Services, explains in an Incident Prevention magazine article.… Read more...

Crane Industry Services company news

CIS Hosts Open House, Power UP Workshop

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In September, CIS held an open house for its new 8,892-sq. ft. Centered on Safety Training Center, located in Carrollton, Ga. Representatives from Maxim Crane Works, a CIS customer, assisted with cutting the ribbon on the new facility. About 40 customers,vendors, and members of the local business community and Carroll Chamber of Commerce attended.… Read more...

Automated Skills Tracking Makes for Safe, Profitable Projects

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Managers must know what each crew or individual member brings to the job in terms of skills, training, and experience. Yet, a 2018 survey published by PlanGrid and FMI Corporation show how much revenue is lost each year to not doing just that. The survey looked at how teams spend their time on construction sites, communicate during projects, and leverage their technology investments.… Read more...

Expanding Worker Skill Sets

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Provide employees a plan for ongoing development

Is there value in giving individual workers additional skillsets to maximize your workforce? Yes. Craft workers with unique skills contribute to your corporate brand and ultimately your bottom line. Plant shutdowns and jobsite weather delays are good times for training to take place. But if that training is compliance-based only, the effort will produce fewer long-term positive results for your company.… Read more...

Pilot Program Brings Together two NCCER Providers to Deliver Localized Training

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Wood, a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, thinks locally when it comes to workforce development and training. A relatively small project for the company in Georgia, requiring about 250 construction workers, is serving as a training test pilot for the company.… Read more...