Nordic Crane is expanding all over Scandinavia and new projects constantly need our expertise and services. With the start-up of a new department in northern Sweden and several new projects and departments in Western Norway, we are facing exciting times. We always put safety first and it is clear, that Nordic Crane’s safety work is being noticed. We are now nominated for ESTA Awards 2024 in the Safety category with our digital safety manual aptly called: SAFETY.

Demanding jobs
We deliver complex and challenging lifts to the whole of Scandinavia and with that comes great responsibility and a clear focus on safety. In industries such as industry, oil and gas, infrastructure and wind power, the work we perform is demanding and involve risk. This places great demands on us being safety minded and what routines we must adhere to in our everyday work.SAFETY – a digital safety manual
Our digital safety manual SAFETY contains all the processes and safety measures we must adhere to in our everyday life. Detailed and established routines for a variety of situations we may face in our work. If something serious happens, we must have clear routines that are easily accessible digitally on the mobile. The same applies to daily routines in various work processes we carry out, as well as applicable regulations and instructions for all our machines and equipment. Everything complete, in one easily accessible place.

Life-saving rules
SAFETY also contains our own “Life-saving rules” which help us with the conventional and life-saving rules we must follow every single day to prevent something unwanted from happening. These eight rules put a necessary spotlight on how we can avoid danger and help us, our partners, and customers to come home safely, all our lives.

Proud finalists
We at Nordic Crane are proud finalists in the ESTA Awards 2024 and humbled by the recognition. We know that we work hard with HSE every single day and that we always put safety first in our work. However, with an effective and smart tool like SAFETY, we feel even safer at work and can offer safer services to our customers.

32-year-old Vibeke went from being a hairdresser to becoming a crane operator with us at Nordic Crane. She has now completed a truck certificate, a tower crane course, and a mobile crane course, and is well underway with her working day as a crane operator.

Vibeke is a trained skin and body therapist and is a certified hairdresser, but after many wonderful years in the beauty industry, her body reached its limits. She decided it was time for a 180-turn in her professional life, and after thorough research, she finally chose a crane operator. She has not regretted that for a second. Making such a drastic life-change is no easy task, but Vibeke found motivation and strength. 

– I said to myself, “I’m able to do this, and I’m going to do this”. It’s amazing how far you get with being a little stubborn and determined. I like ‘getting my hands dirty,’ and finding a job where I can spend some time outside was important to me. When I decided to find something completely different to work with, I posted on a women’s Facebook group asking what their professions were. I needed some inspiration. One day, someone sent me a private message saying she worked in the construction industry and enjoyed it! I didn’t really need to hear more. I contacted a school that held a machine operator course and started my education – she says eagerly. 

Vibeke joined us at Nordic Crane in December 2023 and feels that she has been warmly welcomed by colleagues at our department in Fredrikstad. 

– I am delighted with the choice, and I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to work for the best company in Norway. My colleagues at Nordic Cane have a lot of high competence and experience. I can learn a lot from that. I look forward to going to work every single day,” she says.

We are very pleased to have Vibeke join the team and hope this can contribute to more girls wanting to pursue a career as a crane operator.