Focus on safety
Liebherr takes responsibility
Applied expertise
Our mobile and crawler cranes have an excellent array of safety equipment. Liebherr specialists conduct stringent tests on every machine to ensure they meet our exacting quality standards. Liebherr also delivers the latest expertise to crane drivers and companies. This enables us to highlight specific dangers in crane operation to ensure greater safety for everyday work.
Our quality standards
Liebherr continuously develops new technologies to make further improvements to quality and safety. The focal points of our research extend from materials and design principles to control and monitoring systems.
Liebherr does business only with selected suppliers and partners. That enables us to deliver uniformly high quality and safety standards.
Test loads guarantee safety
Liebherr adopts the very highest safety standards for the design of its mobile and crawler cranes. This particularly applies to the structural values. Our developers calculate every single crane's structural integrity with a safety margin of 1.5.
Every single crane has to pass a whole series of intensive, continuous tests and checks both during the entire production process and then afterwards on the factory's own test site. The test load for the crane acceptance procedure on the test site is around 25 percent higher than the standard load capacity.
Well designed equipment to enhance industrial safety
A genuine Liebherr crane includes a sophisticated safety concept. The crane operator has equipment and systems for working in, on and around the crane to ensure the job can be completed safely.
Our BTT remote control and VarioBase® are ideal for this purpose.
Expert knowledge for safe working practices
For more than 40 years, we’ve been creating solutions for safe crane operations and sharing this expertise through training and documentation. We place special emphasis on the risks associated with wind: it can impact the crane and the load in seconds and significantly affect lateral stability—often without being detected by the control system. The shape and weight of the load are also key factors: large wind-exposed surfaces, such as rotor blades, can exceed standard load chart values. One rule always applies: Double the wind speed equals four times the load on the boom and the load.
Rescue sheet for Liebherr mobile cranes
Liebherr is supplying its mobile cranes with a rescue sheet since several years. This shows the structure of the crane and any hazardous substances on it. It is a tool to provide valuable help to fire service and recovery personnel for rescuing personnel and recovering the mobile crane after an accident.
Practical content
The rescue sheet details the vehicle structure, recommended cutting points on the driver’s cab and crane cab, and the location of key media such as fuels or oils, including hazard class and quantity. It also illustrates the cab layout with seats and adjustment features.
Liebherr mobile cranes have been equipped with rescue sheets since 2011. All LTM and LTC models from emission stage 3b onward include them as standard. To ensure the correct sheet is used, it is device-specific and placed behind the driver’s seat on the crane.
Collaboration with the fire department
A project team at Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbH developed rescue sheets for Liebherr mobile cranes to make it easier for recovery personnel to rescue passengers quickly and safely after traffic accidents or accidents on sites. In developing the concept Liebherr worked closely with the local fire service from Ehingen.
