Research on accident situations of crane transport systems

Abstract

Although in recent years more and more attention is paid to risk-based maintenance techniques and technical diagnostic methods are being implemented on an ever-increasing scale, cranes still participate with as much as one third in all deaths in certain types of industry. In line with that, the subject of this research is the verification of an instrument for the investigation of accident situations of the crane transport system. After conducting a factor analysis and reliability analysis, it was confirmed that the instrument with 8 dimensions of different weight factors can be used as valid and reliable. Data were collected in 51 domestic companies, where crane transport systems are used. The mean value of collected data shows that the examination of accident situations of the installed crane transport system is at a very low level in the domestic industry - 18.95 out of 75 points. The proposal of further research is to link the obtained data with other variables that affect the operation of the crane transport system, such as the commitment of management to risk management, training of maintainers and operators, prescribed work procedures, process safety information, change management, occupational safety and machine inspection procedures.