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Jch Provides Holistic Lifting Packages For Any Project

14th April 2014

  

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Ranked amongst the top crane hire companies in the world, Johnson Crane Hire has long been distinguished as the smartest in its field. Qualifying this statement, Peter Yaman, sales executive explains that this accolade was earned through the company’s emphasis on providing more than just a crane hire service. “Operating cranes involves a great deal more than just lifting loads and moving them from one place to another. In its quest for providing a holistic lifting package, Johnson Crane Hire adopted the SMART (Safety, Maintenance, Availability, Reliability and Total cost effectiveness) philosophy as its business credo.”

Running the largest mobile crane fleet in Africa is an immense undertaking, so it is important that the company approach each lift with due diligence and care. “We provide cost effective total lifting solutions that are appropriate to individual customer requirements. Operating large cranes is a specialised field that needs careful planning. Elements such as CAD rigging studies, comprehensive assessments, method statements and risk assessments must all be factored in,” Yaman explains.

Due to the nature of heavy lifts, Johnson Crane Hire places safety at the top of its checklist. This entails ensuring that all lifting equipment is kept in optimum condition through regular, proactive maintenance schedules and ongoing inspections by third party inspectorates. “We are not prepared to compromise the safety of our employees and other on-site personnel by cutting corners on safety checks,” says Yaman.

Comprehensive workshop facilities, technical expertise and superior systems have earned Johnson Crane Hire the reputation of owning the most well maintained lifting equipment in Africa. “All our branches are equipped to undertake maintenance and our mechanics are capable of completing various levels of repair. Major repair work is undertaken at the comprehensively equipped national workshop based in Germiston, Gauteng,” adds Yaman.

In addition to the systematic upkeep of the company’s machines, Johnson Crane Hire has a team of highly skilled and trained operators. Not only are the operators well versed in the actual operation of the cranes, but they are also completely familiarised with the application of comprehensively documented and implemented safety systems. Compliance with industry safety standards ensures that these systems and the risk assessments conducted before each lift form an integral part of the safety culture ingrained in every Johnson Crane Hire employee.

Yaman says that staff turnover in the company is remarkably low, with many employees clocking up service records of 30 years and more. “Many of the children of our employees follow in their parents’ footsteps and are employed by Johnson Crane Hire as crane operators. This is a rare occurrence within any industry.”

Training for operational safety
In order to provide industry with best practice heavy lifting, Johnson Crane Hire operates its own comprehensive in-house training facility in Vanderbijlpark. Due to the complexity of some of the machines operated by Johnson Crane Hire, the company also undertakes specific training through external authorities.

The Johnson Crane Hire training centre is registered to certify operators and the certified trainers have considerable expertise in identifying potential and capabilities within operators and are also able to deal with a broad range of behavioural issues.

Both theoretical and practical training is undertaken, with safety forming an integral part of the TETA-accredited coursework. Trainee operators spend six weeks at the training centre undertaking a training programme that has been developed by Johnson Crane Hire and which exceeds the basic legislated requirements. Re-certification can be conducted over three days. While competence and accountability are key aspects of all training programmes, the prevailing theme is safety.

Since it is vital that individuals be trained on the specific cranes that they will be required to operate, operational training is complemented by exercises in travelling on roads as well as assembling and stripping cranes. This sets Johnson Crane Hire apart from the majority of other training facilities since they are able to provide trainees with full accessibility to cranes for these practical programmes.

Leveraging capabilities
Founded in 1976, Johnson Crane Hire operates across the country with a fleet of hydraulic and crawler cranes ranging from 8 to 750 tons, for both the short and long term, on any type of project. The company works together with customers to design the optimum lifting solution supplying professional operators and full supervision, including all necessary rigging equipment, in a single source supplier approach.

Branches are strategically located around South Africa in line with the company’s philosophy of being on hand to meet all customers’ needs around the clock. The company’s head office and the Heavy Lift Division are situated in Germiston and these are complemented by branches in Burgersfort, Cape Town, Durban, Lephalale, Johannesburg, Middelburg, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Rustenburg, Saldanha, Trichardt, Vanderbijlpark and Welkom, with a subsidiary operation in Botswana. Recently established depots include Kusile, Kathu and Mokopane.

The Johnson Crane Hire South African operation extends its services into Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and other southern African countries on both an ad hoc and project basis. The company has an acknowledged track record in delivering appropriate solutions for the power, petrochemical, refinery, industrial, mining and civil infrastructure industries, throughout Africa, on a number of milestone projects.

The company’s reputation for quality service is attributable to a number of factors including its dogmatic decision to purchasing only tried and proven brand names like Tadano, Grove, Liebherr and Terex, including the only 750 ton crawler crane in Africa. This also ensures that high levels of back-up support are provided.

It boasts the most modern fleet of truck mounts, all-terrain and rough-terrain hydraulic cranes, as well as crawler cranes, all of which provide a capacity and range capable of meeting any customer requirement. “In response to customer demand, Johnson Crane Hire imported the only 750-ton lattice boom crawler crane into its heavy lift fleet, enabling us to further extend our capability offering. Over the past few years, we have invested in excess of half a billion Rand in new cranes,” Yaman points out.

The company also owns two mobile construction cranes. These Liebherr MK110 cranes are designed specifically for the construction environment and are built to operate in constricted areas, using unique operating methods.

In addition to standard lifting projects, Johnson Crane Hire is also frequently requested to undertake specialised ad hoc jobs that often call for heavy lift cranes with a capacity of 200 tons upwards. This type of project requires not only cranage, but also a full project management package that includes engineering, heavy transport, rigging and site supervision.

Expertise is provided by professionals who bring added value services to the table including rigging, transport, lift engineering, CAD studies and insurance. Site inspection and rigging studies are included in the service to customers at no extra cost. The customer centric offerings ensure that all customer deadlines are respected and plant downtime is minimised.

Claiming a diverse portfolio of past successes, Johnson Crane Hire can help determine the most effective lifting solutions for factory to foundation projects, from inception to completion involving planning, methodology, lift engineering, cranes, route surveying, transport and rigging.

The lift engineering team charts the lift in advance, identifying crucial lifting performance and critical paths to eliminate undesirable incidents and to provide innovative solutions to all lifting challenges. A comprehensive risk assessment is conducted to determine any potential problems and appropriate solutions are created before the crane even arrives on site.

A successful lift depends on applying the correct equipment with the relevant skills. Johnson Crane Hire’s internal rigging services provide heavy lift crane support and this is supplemented by accredited outsourced rigging services, with certified riggers and equipment. The company also provides heavy and abnormal transport to move loads horizontally or vertically through an extensive partnership with transport providers.

Johnson Crane Hire adheres to the strictest ethical standards with total transparency and offers a professional service through its dedicated and competent team. “We will continue to build on the solid partnerships already established with our customers, keeping abreast of technology and becoming increasingly entrenched in all industries where we operate, whilst also extending our services further into Africa,” Yaman concludes.

HOLISTIC LIFTING PACKAGE PIC 01 : Johnson Crane Hire imported the only 750-ton lattice boom crawler crane into its heavy lift fleet.

HOLISTIC LIFTING PACKAGE PIC 02 : Branches are strategically located around South Africa ensuring that customers have access to its extensive fleet of cranes of varying capacities.

HOLISTIC LIFTING PACKAGE PIC 03 : Extensive experience with both routine and complicate lifts means Johnson Crane Hire can help determine the most effective lifting solutions.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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