If It Lifts, We Inspect It.

Crane & Lifting Equipment Inspection

Crane inspection verifies that the equipment your people work under can still carry what its plate says it can — hooks, wire rope, structure, drives and controls, examined and documented. CIC inspects and load-tests overhead cranes, hoists and lifting gear across Alberta, and backs every inspection with something most inspection outfits can't: an NDT company and an independent materials lab under the same roof.

Alberta's OHS Code requires cranes and hoists to be inspected and maintained to the manufacturer's specifications and the CSA standards the Code adopts, with the paper trail kept in the equipment log book. When the inspection is skipped, the log book is what the investigator reads first. Our job is making sure yours reads well.

Annual & Periodic Crane Inspection

A comprehensive annual inspection covers the load path end to end — hooks, blocks, wire rope, drums and sheaves, brakes, limit switches, structure and runway — against the manufacturer's specifications and the applicable CSA standard, with findings documented for the log book. Between annuals, periodic and frequent inspections are matched to how hard the crane actually works: a maintenance-bay jib and a production-line bridge crane on double shifts do not carry the same risk.

Overhead, Gantry, Jib & Mobile Cranes

CIC inspects overhead and bridge cranes, gantry and semi-gantry cranes, jib cranes, monorails and hoists, and mobile cranes — in plants, shops, warehouses and on project sites. Where the standard or the finding calls for it, inspection goes beyond visual: magnetic particle inspection on hooks and critical welds, ultrasonic testing on structural members and pins — the difference between 'looks fine' and 'tested fine.'

Load Testing & Proof Load

Load testing proves capacity instead of assuming it — certified test weights or calibrated load cells, taken to the test load the standard prescribes, with deflection and function verified under load. It's how new installations enter service, how repaired or modified cranes come back, and how doubt gets settled after an overload event. Certificates state the load applied, the method and the result.

Wire Rope, Slings & Rigging

Rigging fails quietly — broken wires inside a lay, a stretched chain link, a shackle pin worn out of round, cut protection nobody replaced. CIC inspects wire rope against retirement criteria, plus chain and synthetic slings, shackles, hooks, spreader bars, below-the-hook lifting devices and man baskets, and tags what passes so there's never an argument about what's in service. When a rope or hook has already failed, the same company's metallurgical lab can tell you why.

Heavy Equipment NDT

The same discipline applies to the heavy iron around the crane: draglines, shovels, excavator booms and sticks, haul truck frames, buckets and attachments. Cracks in high-stress weldments are found by MPI and UT long before they're found by daylight — on scheduled shutdowns or on a service truck at your site.

One Report, No Ambiguity

Every inspection lands as a clear written report: what was inspected, to what standard, what passed, what needs monitoring, and what comes out of service now — written for the log book, the auditor and the OHS officer. CIC has inspected for Alberta industry since 1982, and we don't sell cranes, rope or rigging, so the report has no thumb on the scale.

Book an inspection or a load test: 780-468-4593, or request a quote online.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often do cranes need to be inspected in Alberta?

At minimum, a comprehensive inspection annually, plus frequent and periodic inspections scaled to the crane's service class — with everything maintained to the manufacturer's specifications and the CSA standards Alberta's OHS Code adopts, and recorded in the log book. Heavy or severe service shortens the interval; a crane that hasn't been inspected in over a year is overdue.

What does a crane inspection include?

The load path end to end: hooks and blocks, wire rope, drums, sheaves, brakes, limit switches and controls, structural members and runway, plus function checks. Comprehensive inspections add NDT — magnetic particle on hooks and critical welds, ultrasonic on structure — and finish with a written report and log book documentation.

When is wire rope retired?

When it hits the retirement criteria in the applicable standard — broken wire counts per lay length, diameter reduction, kinking, crushing, corrosion or heat damage. The honest answer is that rope rarely announces itself; scheduled inspection against the criteria is what catches it, and a tagged, dated inspection is what proves you did.

What does a crane inspection cost?

It scales with the equipment count, crane type and whether load testing is included — a single jib crane and a plant full of bridge cranes are different days. Send the equipment list through the quote form or call 780-468-4593 and we'll price the visit, not a guess.