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The holiday Crane Operator’s Day or Crane Operator’s Day in Our Country is not fixed at the state level. There is no mention of him in any official documents in 2023. However, as for any mass profession, there is still a date on the calendar when people united by a common cause celebrate the holiday.
Moreover, the profession is massive and important. If the world economy develops, then there will be construction, cargo transportation and production, where crane operators are needed. Today in Our Country, machinists are trained not only in colleges and vocational schools, but also in special courses.
When is Crane Operator Day in 2023
Most crane operators are employed on construction sites, so for a long time professionals in this industry have been congratulated on Builder’s Day. However, activists proposed to establish a separate holiday date, and since 2014 the Crane Operator’s Day has been celebrated 4 June.
After all, not all cranes are involved in construction. For example, some work in ports, large freight depots, or factories. You can’t call them builders, but people want to have their own holiday.
history of the holiday
Crane Operator Day in Our Country cannot boast of a rich history. Let’s figure out on what basis the date of June 4 was chosen. On this day in 2014, the Ministry of Justice registered the order “On approval of the professional standard “Crane Operator”. Therefore, representatives of the profession made this day a holiday. The document describes the labor functions of crane operators of various types of lifting machines.
An interesting fact: after the approval of the first edition of the document, three years later, a new one came out. However, a professional holiday is supposed to keep a clear date, otherwise it will not become traditional. Therefore, following the new document, the Day of the Crane Operator in Our Country was not postponed. Left June 4th.
Holiday traditions
Due to its youth, by 2023 the Crane Operator’s Day did not have time to make traditions. In addition, due to the fact that representatives of the profession are employed in different industries, everywhere they spend this day in their own way. Most often, at enterprises or construction sites, management simply presents treats to crane workers as a sign of attention.
From time to time in Our Country, the professional community raises talk about holding a skill contest on Crane Operator’s Day. However, this has not been done so far. More often, crane operators are invited to competitions of working professions and make a separate qualification for them.
It can be considered a modern tradition for employees to post information about the holiday on their social networks. All this indirectly contributes to the popularization of the profession. Especially if we are talking about tall tower cranes, this is also a kind of romance. Therefore, on Crane Operator Day, we invite all employees to share their photos on social networks, accompany them with a funny story or a curious fact about the profession.
Interesting facts about cranes and crane operators
- The word “faucet” has many professional meanings. In addition to the familiar ones – a valve or a lifting mechanism, it is recorded in the dictionaries of professional vocabulary. For example, for numismatists it is an Iranian monetary unit, for athletes it is a figure of synchronized swimming, and for railway workers it is a control lever.
- In the Empire, cranes began to be produced in Kostroma in 1840. Around the same time, in Europe and the United States, various inventors began to refine and improve this mechanism. By the end of the XNUMXth century, cranes began to be equipped with electric motors.
- Judging by the buildings of ancient civilizations – the Pantheon, the pyramids of Cheops – at the dawn of mankind, crane-like structures were also used in construction. Historians are still trying to reproduce these mechanisms. Definitely, Archimedes made a significant contribution to the development with his law of leverage.
- In the USSR, the first to produce truck cranes was the Krasny Metallist plant in 1934. The model was called ATP-1. It is interesting that the second Soviet truck crane was called “January”, as it was made in the Ukrainian SSR at the “January Uprising” plant.
- The most powerful truck crane model is called Mammoth. They are made by a German company. The heavyweight is capable of lifting over a thousand tons. Naturally, the machine is not mass-produced. Of the stationary champions, the Teisun crane, which is installed at a shipyard in China, is distinguished. Its carrying capacity is over six thousand tons.