CRANES, EMPLOYEE’S LIFTS AND MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINERY
Strength and stability
134.—(1) It shall be the duty of the owner of a crane, an employee’s lift or a material handling machinery being used in a worksite to ensure that the crane, employee’s lift or material handling machinery is —
(a)
of good construction, sound material and adequate strength;
(b)
free from patent defects; and
(c)
properly maintained.
(2) It shall be the duty of the operator of a crane or material handling machinery being used in a worksite to ensure that the crane or machinery, as the case may be, is positioned and operated as to be stable.
Capacity chart
135.—(1) It shall be the duty of the owner of any crane used in a worksite to comply with paragraphs (2), (3) and (4).
(2) Where the capacity of the crane used in a worksite is variable, a capacity chart shall be provided.
(3) The capacity chart shall —
(a)
be posted and maintained in the crane which is clearly visible to the operator;
(b)
set out the safe loads for various lengths of jib at various angles and radial distances; and
(c)
be prepared and certified by an authorised examiner, unless it is furnished by the manufacturer or builder of the crane.
(4) Where outriggers are provided, the safe loads with and without the use of outriggers shall be specified.
Thorough examination and inspection
136. It shall be the duty of the occupier of a worksite to ensure that before any crane, employee’s lift or material handling machinery is put into service for the first time in the worksite —
(a)
it has been thoroughly examined and inspected by a competent person; and
(b)
in the case of a crane or an employee’s lift, such examination and test is conducted by an authorised examiner.
Handling of suspended loads
137.—(1) It shall be the duty of the operator of any crane or material handling machinery used in a worksite to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure that a suspended load is not moved over any person in the worksite.
(2) It shall be the duty of —
(a)
the employer of any person who carries out any work involving lifting operations in a worksite; or
(b)
the principal under whose direction any person carries out any work involving lifting operations in a worksite,
to ensure that loads that have a tendency to swing or turn freely during hoisting are controlled by tag-lines.
Prohibition on riding on loads
138. It shall be the duty of —
(a)
the employer of any person who carries out any work involving the use of any crane, hoisting machinery, material handling machinery or excavating machinery in the worksite; or
(b)
the principal under whose direction any person carries out any work involving the use of any crane, hoisting machinery, material handling machinery or excavating machinery in a worksite,
to ensure that no person rides on the loads, buckets, skips, cars, slings or hooks of the machinery.
Cranes or machinery at rest
139. It shall be the duty of the operator of any crane or material handling machinery used in a worksite to ensure that no load is left suspended on the crane or material handling machinery when it is not in use.
Operators of employee’s lift
140.—(1) It shall be duty of the occupier of a worksite to ensure that —
(a)
no employee’s lift is operated in the worksite unless it is in the charge of a designated person stationed in the car as its attendant; and
(b)
no person other than the lift car attendant moves the car of the employee’s lift or opens the car door or gate of the employee’s lift.
(2) It shall be the duty of the lift car attendant —
(a)
not to cause the lift car to move unless he is satisfied that the load is prepared for movement; and
(b)
to exercise all due diligence when operating the employee’s lift.
