The annual inspection every crane needs — organised end to end through our inspector network, wherever your cranes are working, and tracked by IDC so the big obligations never sneak up.
AS 2550 requires every crane to be inspected at least annually by a competent person. For most owners that inspection is handled through CraneSafe — CICA's national crane assessment program — and it's the compliance document your clients, principal contractors, and insurers ask to see.
IDC organises CraneSafe annual inspections through our network of inspectors around Australia — covering the full range of equipment under AS 1418 and AS 2550, from a Franna to an LG 1750. Our own engineers hold CraneSafe endorsements themselves, so the people watching your compliance record know exactly what an annual inspection should catch.
Your fleet doesn't sit in one yard, and the annual needs to happen wherever the crane is working. IDC organises the complete process through our network of CraneSafe inspectors across Australia: we schedule the inspections around your jobs and yard time, the network gets them done wherever the cranes are, and every result comes back into one fleet compliance record.
You make one call. You don't chase a different provider in every state, and you don't keep the compliance picture in a filing cabinet — because scattered annual reports tell you nothing about where your fleet stands. Brought together in one place, they tell you everything: what's due, what's trending, and which cranes are heading toward the big engineering milestones.
And when an annual turns up something that needs more than a defect note — cracking, structural damage, a repair that needs engineering sign-off — IDC's engineers are already across the crane's history and take it from assessment through to verified repair.
Independence is built into the program itself: CraneSafe's conditions require every accredited assessor to be independent of the crane's owner — so the inspection is never marking its own homework, whoever performs it.
Already have a CraneSafe inspector you trust? We can work with them too — the process and the compliance record work the same way.
Here's what most owners miss: the annual inspection is also the early-warning system for the major inspection.
Most sites won't accept a crane past 10 years without a completed major inspection. Hit that point unprepared and you're facing an unplanned engineering assessment, possible downtime, and a scramble for budget.
With IDC organising your fleet's compliance program, we track where every crane sits against its design life and flag the majors coming over the horizon — years out, not weeks out. You plan the engineering assessment, the budget, and the downtime around your operational calendar instead of around a deadline. And the engineers who do that major inspection already know your crane.
That's the point of Complete Crane Compliance: the annual inspection, the major inspection, and the engineering in between — joined up by one partner who's watching the whole clock.
One crane or two hundred. We map what's due and when.
IDC schedules the inspections through our network of CraneSafe inspectors, around your yard schedule and job locations.
CraneSafe documentation plus a single fleet-wide compliance picture held by IDC — in plain language, not a filing cabinet of PDFs.
IDC flags approaching major inspection triggers years ahead and takes the crane through the staged engineering assessment when it's due.
Whether it's one Franna or a fleet of crawlers, the conversation starts the same way: tell us what you've got, and we'll map out where every crane stands.
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