Quality and Safety

Material platforms vs personnel platforms: engineering differences and proper use

Crane-Suspended Man Baskets, Material Platforms, Forklift-Mounted Man Baskets, Quality and Safety

From the ground, a crane material platform and a man basket can look like cousins. Both have steel frames, floors, sidewalls, and lifting points. On a busy site, that similarity leads to “just this once” decisions: riding in a material basket, or loading heavy freight into a personnel platform. Those shortcuts ignore how different these […]

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material lifting platform load test

How material platforms are load tested, certified, and tracked

Material Platforms, Quality and Safety

Material lifting platforms move heavy, awkward loads every day and often hang over people and critical equipment. They just don’t get the same attention as man baskets, because no one rides inside. When a material platform fails, the first headline is “dropped load,” not “fall from height,” but the fallout can still be ugly: wrecked

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crane man basket load testing

How crane personnel platforms are load tested, certified, and inspected

Crane-Suspended Man Baskets, Quality and Safety

Crane‑suspended personnel platforms sit at the sharp end of your lifting program. When they fail, people get hurt first and everything else comes second. Regulators know that, which is why man baskets attract far more scrutiny than material platforms or generic below‑the‑hook gear. From an engineering point of view, a man basket is a purpose‑designed

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ASME B30.23 personnel platform

ASME B30.23 Explained for Personnel Lifting

Quality and Safety

ASME B30.23 establishes the engineering and operational requirements for personnel lifting systems suspended from cranes and derricks. While OSHA 1926.1431 governs regulatory enforcement for personnel hoisting, ASME B30.23 defines the technical framework that informs structural design, load rating methodology, inspection criteria, and operational controls. For manufacturers and specifiers of crane-suspended personnel platforms, ASME B30.23 is

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OSHA 1926.1431 & ASME B30.23 Explained: Crane Personnel Platform Requirements

OSHA 1926.1431 & ASME B30.23 Explained: Crane Personnel Platform Requirements

Quality and Safety, Crane-Suspended Man Baskets

When a crane lifts personnel, the regulatory stakes change immediately. Unlike material lifting, hoisting workers in a crane personnel platform (man basket) is tightly regulated under OSHA 1926.1431 and informed by ASME B30.23. These standards exist because personnel lifting exposes workers to elevated fall risk, dynamic forces, and catastrophic failure potential if equipment is improperly

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Crane Personnel Platform Safety Training

LT’s Crane Suspended Personnel Platform Safety Training

Quality and Safety

Is your safety team on the cutting edge of workplace safety promotion? Is consistently presenting new safety training to maintain a well-trained and informed workforce part of your safety protocol? Partner with Lifting Technologies to provide your crane suspended personnel hoisting safety training!  Lifting Technologies’ focus on safety goes far beyond our lifting platforms. Our

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