This bulletin provides a helpful insight to understanding the qualities of concrete and how they affect pumping. This information is for your knowledge and better understanding of concrete. It should NOT be used to instruct contractors or ready mixed concrete suppliers.
When working around fresh, wet concrete there is always the potential for concrete to come into direct contact with your skin and eyes. This contact can lead to severe burns and are a hidden danger to anyone who works with, or around these materials. This bulletin provides many useful tips on how to protect yourself and others when working around fresh concrete, mortar, or grout.
"Shortrigging" describes the act of not extending the outriggers on the side away from the pour. Shortrigging is NOT recommended, but under certain conditions it may be required. It can be done safely if proper procedures are followed. This bulletin provides detailed tips and procedures designed to make your shortrigging situation as safe as possible.
Setting the outriggers of a concrete pump with a placing boom is one of the most critical jobs of the concrete pump operator, and should always be done in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommended procedure. If not done properly, it can lead to a serious accident. This bulletin is designed to help the concrete pump operator avoid such accidents.
Air ingression to concrete pumping delivery pipelines has revealed itself as a considerable hazard under certain circumstances. Injuries to placing crew personnel have been sustained when trapped air is momentarily compressed, then released; causing the end hose to whip violently. The list of circumstances leading to hose whipping continues to evolve as knowledge is gathered from the field. This bulletin addresses some of these circumstances and provides tips to avoid hose-whipping incidents.
This heavy-duty card will come in handy out in the field, and the quality paper stock assures it will hold up to even the toughest weather conditions. 9.75" x 6.5" English & Spanish
The compilation of a series of tests conducted to compare the air content, air void system parameters and freeze-thaw durability of air-entrained concrete as influenced by various methods of placement and consolidation. Construction of a large concrete parking lot and driveway area at a White Bear, Minnesota manufacturing facility provided an opportunity to conduct full-scale testing under actual field conditions. The author of this report designed and controlled the testing program.
This document is intended to be a reference tool kept close at hand for the purpose of educating ICF laborers and the placing crew working near the concrete pump or boom. It contains the safety points needed by coworkers to keep them out of harm’s way throughout the course of a day’s work. An effort should be made to see that all persons involved with the pour have access to this information, even if it must be verbally transmitted or translated.
English only, illustrated, saddle-stitched, 16 pages
This easy-to-follow document provides safety guidelines for ready mix concrete truck drivers who are making deliveries to concrete pumps. It is intended to inform drivers of mixer trucks about the hazards found around concrete pumps and pumping jobs and provides guidance for avoiding these hazards.
This easy-to-follow document provides safety guidelines for ready mix concrete truck drivers who are making deliveries to concrete pumps. It is intended to inform drivers of mixer trucks about the hazards found around concrete pumps and pumping jobs and provides guidance for avoiding these hazards.
This guide provides a precise description of the "rules of the road" for laborers, oilers, and the placing crew working around a concrete pump. Illustrated, saddle-stitched, 20 pages
This guide provides a precise description of the "rules of the road" for laborers, oilers, and the placing crew working around a concrete pump. Illustrated, saddle-stitched, 20 pages
A must-have guide for the prevention of accidents when towing, operating, cleaning, and maintaining line pumps and related equipment. Keep a copy handy to educate personnel working on the job site and around the concrete line pump.
Illustrated, bound, 66 pages
Note: There may be a small delay in the shipment of this product because it's currently in production.
A must-have guide for the prevention of accidents when towing, operating, cleaning, and maintaining line pumps and related equipment. Keep a copy handy to educate personnel working on the job site and around the concrete line pump.
A must-have guide for the prevention of accidents when driving, operating, cleaning, and maintaining concrete pumps, placing booms, and related equipment. Keep a copy handy in the glove compartment of your pump to educate personnel working on the job site and around the concrete pump. Illustrated, bound, 96 pages
Note: There may be a small delay in the shipment of this product because it's currently in production.
A must-have guide for the prevention of accidents when driving, operating, cleaning, and maintaining concrete pumps, placing booms, and related equipment. Keep a copy handy in the glove compartment of your pump to educate personnel working on the job site and around the concrete pump.
The Board of Directors of the American Concrete Pumping Association (ACPA) held its Executive Board election immediately following the ACPA annual membership meeting, January 18, 2011.
Elected were: Carl Walker, Central Concrete Pumping, Ft. Worth, Texas, president; Beth Langhauser, Midwest Ltd., Rock Island, Illinois, vice-president; Matt Kaminsky, ACI Concrete Placement, Spring Hill, Kansas, secretary; and Scott Savage, Savage Concrete Pumping, Greensboro, North Carolina, treasurer.
Executive board members are elected annually to serve a one-year term.
?Until Congress and the Administration agree to make America's farmers and manufacturers a national priority by passing free trade agreements and investing in critical infrastructure?both proven drivers of economic growth?unemployment will remain unacceptably high and our economy will continue to stagnate.? ?Dennis Slater, AEM President, June 3, 2011
"Although the new ACPA Operator Safety Presentation Program DVD is a great alternative to attending a live presentation since it affords easier access to safety training, it still cannot capture the interaction benefit of attending a live safety seminar,” says executive director Christi Collins. “Operators are able to relate with the speaker as well as share their real-life experiences with other operators and there is the opportunity to ask pertinent questions that are not addressed in the recorded program.
Beginning January 1, 2012 a new element to the safety training education requirement for ACPA Operator Certification will be added to include completion of the ACPA Operator Safety Presentation Program.
As a requirement for ACPA Operator Certification, operators must fulfill ACPA sanctioned safety training. Fulfillment of this training requirement will be available in one of three ways:
An updated version of the ACPA brochure “Why Pump Concrete” has now been added to the ACPA’s educational and promotional library of materials and is available to its membership.
Featuring some of the latest and the most innovative pumping equipment in the marketplace, the brochure details the benefits and multitude of placing options available to meet the needs of today’s concrete construction projects.
