Global crane manufacturing company Liebherr have won the ESTA award for the ‘Training’ category.
A new introduction to the ESTA (European association for the abnormal road transport and mobile crane rental industry) awards, the recent addition of the category underscores the importance of producing ready-made workers to minimise accidents.
Offering a variety of different courses, the Germany-based manufacturers employ training methods that cover crane operators, dispatchers, and workshop personnel around the world.
With the company trying to better train crane industry employees and thereby reduce workplace-related accidents, the Managing Director of Sales at Liebherr-Werk Ehingen Christoph Kleiner said that training “customers” was also just as important when it came to the “safe and efficient use of our cranes”.
“In recent years, we have added further learning methods, which we consistently used and expanded during the pandemic,” he said. “These were also aimed at new target groups, not just crane drivers.”
Overall, training is also a key pillar of our business model, both in terms of presence in our division’s training centres worldwide, but also digitally within our MyLiebherr customer platform.”
Offering courses available via e-learning, face-to-face, or live streaming to facilitate those in more distant regions, Liebherr’s focus spotlights the need to produce qualified personnel who are cognisant of the responsibility of handling mobile cranes.
With a goal of zero accidents in the industry, Christoph Behmuller – head of the training department at Liebherr in Ehingen – added that the initiatives around training were designed to “support customers in…long-standing relationships”.
“Finding skilled workers and, at the same time, developing and retaining them is becoming increasingly more difficult,” he said. “Together we have thought about how we can properly support them in developing their employees, and a new concept has been developed in this way.”
This allows us to offer our customers the possibility of training their employees from beginners to experts.”