Rigging Handbook: The Complete Illustrated Field Reference

This concise handbook is a valuable field reference for those involved with industrial rigging and crane operations.

The author has assembled an invaluable handbook for millwrights, ironworkers, and maintenance mechanics. He draws on his extensive field work, maintenance and teaching experience to provide a complete on-the-job reference. The handbook provides the user with concise information and detailed illustrations to explain situations encountered while performing industrial rigging and hoisting operations. Its easy-to-read format makes it the perfect source of information for both field personnel and engineering professionals, and the associated examples help train or refresh skills that may have been forgotten.

Jerry has authored several publications on industrial crane and rigging operations that are currently used in vocational-technical, apprenticeship, and college courses throughout the United States and Canada. He has been involved with the construction and maintenance of electrical generating stations since 1976. In addition to the numerous hours spent in front of the classroom teaching craftsmen of various disciplines, he has also developed and managed training programs for the nuclear industry. He is a member of Association of Crane and Rigging Professionals and serves as the chairman for the Membership Services Committee.He has been a frequent speaker on behalf of the safety in the construction industry, and promoting standardized testing and qualification of crane operators, riggers, and signalmen.