Some things don’t change – like the obligation to work safely. With our in-house engineering team and our trained inspectors, we provide professional certification services for a wide range of lifting and industrial equipment, including:

We specialize in comprehensive inspections for pickers and other mobile lifting equipment, ensuring our clients’ machinery operates safely and in full compliance with all provincial regulations. Our service meets and exceeds the inspection and certification requirements for every province in Canada, including BC, where standards for lifting equipment are among the most rigorous. Because these machines endure constant stress, vibration, and challenging work environments, routine inspection is essential for preventing failures and maintaining safe operations. Our team conducts detailed mechanical assessments – structural integrity checks, hydraulic evaluations, safety-device confirmation, and full functional testing – to verify that every unit is reliable, secure, and ready for service.

In addition to mechanical inspections, we provide full Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) services on critical load-bearing and high-stress components. Using industry-standard techniques such as magnetic particle testing, ultrasonic testing, and dye penetrant inspection, we can detect cracks, fatigue, and material defects that cannot be identified through visual inspection alone. By combining mechanical inspection with advanced NDT, we deliver a higher level of assurance, helping clients reduce risk, prevent downtime, and maintain full compliance across all Canadian jurisdictions. Our detailed reporting, clear recommendations, and commitment to exceeding regulatory expectations make us a trusted partner in maintaining the safety and integrity of your mobile lifting fleet.

We provide certification and inspection services for all types of pipeline construction equipment, ensuring compliance with applicable safety and engineering standards. Our qualified inspectors assess and certify sidebooms, excavators, loaders, skid steers, and other heavy equipment used in lifting or load-handling operations. Whether for new projects or ongoing field operations, we help ensure your equipment is safe, properly rated, and ready for use in demanding pipeline environments.

Oilfield operators face unique challenges when it comes to lifting and rig equipment, especially when OEM manuals are unavailable or the original manufacturers no longer exist. Safe, compliant operation is non-negotiable, but parking functional equipment because the OEM is gone is not an option.

Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) developed Recommended Practices (RPs) to address this exact challenge. These guidelines help companies maintain, inspect, and certify oilfield-specific lift equipment safely and effectively. Rees N.D.T. plays a key role in many companies’ certification processes, ensuring compliance with these industry standards.

We provide inspection and certification services for:

• Service rigs and drilling rigs;
• Rig overhead lifting equipment and tongs; and
• Repairs and minor modifications between Level IV inspections.

Our team can manage the entire certification process, including tear-down, cleaning, mechanical inspection, repair, N.D.T. inspection, reassembly, load testing, and final certification, or work alongside your team to supply inspection, certification, or both. We have the expertise, personnel, and experience to support your long-term maintenance and compliance plans, regardless of if your equipment is on a 500-day, 1000-day, 3-year, or 6-year Level IV cycle.

Manlift operations elevate workers, and with that comes inherent risk. Every OH&S jurisdiction we operate in has strict regulations for the construction, safe use, maintenance, and certification of manlift units.

In Canada, manlift construction and inspection are governed by the CSA B354 series of standards, which provide OEMs flexibility in recommendations for N.D.T. inspection and engineering certification. However, many prime contractors require maintenance, inspection, and certification that exceed manufacturer standards, often including annual N.D.T. inspection and certification. Whether you own, rent, or lease a manlift, our team has the expertise, personnel, and tracking systems to help you determine and document the structural inspection history of units brought to your site.

Recent updates to fall protection requirements address the hazard of ejection from the basket during motion or collision. Studies show that many fatalities involving manlifts result from personnel falling from the basket, not unit tipping or collapse. Updated codes now require anchor points in the basket and that personnel are properly tied off to prevent falls. We can help ensure your manbaskets comply with these new safety standards.

From boom lifts, scissor lifts, and bucket trucks to digger derricks and standard manbaskets, we provide design, inspection, and certification services.

The load-bearing components at the end of the hoist cable are just as critical to inspect, maintain, and certify as the crane and hoist itself.

Known as Below-The-Hook (BTH) devices, these include spreader bars, sheave assemblies, slings, cables, elevators, bails, grapples, sheet lifters, coil lifters, and more, depending on your industry. Any lifting system with a rated capacity of 2,000 kg or more falls under Section 89 of the Alberta OH&S Code Part 6, which governs non-destructive testing of load-bearing components.

At Rees N.D.T., we can:

• Inspect and certify existing BTH devices, even when documentation is missing;
• Determine capacity for undocumented devices;
• Design, certify, and engineer new devices to meet your lifting requirements;
• Perform pull-tests, inspections, and certification on slings, hooks, clevises; and more.

These devices also fall under Section 297 of the Alberta OHS Code and must comply with ASME B30.20-2006, which specifies marking, identification, inspection, and maintenance requirements. We assist with periodic inspections, as well as OEM- or engineer-mandated special inspections, ensuring your BTH devices are safe, compliant, and ready for use.

If your equipment operates in sour service, proof of NACE MR0175 compliance is essential. Without it, H₂S can quickly cause severe corrosion and microfracturing in unsuitable steels and alloys.

The NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 standard, maintained by NACE International, outlines how to manufacture, inspect, and maintain equipment to resist sulfide stress cracking (SSC). Combined with API 6A specifications for wellhead and Christmas tree equipment, these standards provide comprehensive guidance for equipment in wet sour-service environments.

We can assist you with the following:

• Test materials for compliance and detect unacceptable hardness;
• Inspect for susceptibility to sulfide stress cracking;
• Certify equipment such as flanges, drilling spools, and other components; and
• Perform dimensional verification and pressure testing to API 6A standards.

Whether as part of a team or leading the certification process, we ensure your equipment meets NACE MR0175 and API 6A standards.