Operation Safety for Lifting Appliances

 

Operation Safety for Lifting Appliances

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Every crane or lifting appliance operator shall possess required skill and training in the operation of the particular lifting appliances, provided further that

Engaging young - No person under eighteen years of age shall be in control of any lifting machine, scaffold winch, or give signals to the operator;

Necessary all precaution shall be taken by the trained operator to prevent lifting appliance from being set in motion inadvertently;

Crane Operation Signals - The operation of lifting appliances shall be governed by signals in conformity with the approved standards;

Attention to Crane Operation - The operator’s attention shall not be distracted while he is working;

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Safe Working Load(SWL) - No crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance or any part of such crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance shall, except for testing purposes, be loaded beyond the safe working load;

Suspended Load - During the hoisting operation by the crane, effective precaution shall be taken to prevent any employees from standing or passing under the suspended load in such operation;

Operator shall not leave lifting appliance unattended while crane engine power is on or the load is suspended to such appliance;

Horseplay - No person shall ride on a suspended load of any lifting appliance;

Prevent Danger - Every part of a load in course of being hoisted or lowered shall bee adequately suspended and supported;

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Every receptacle used for hoisting bricks, tiles, slates or other material shall be suitably enclosed as to prevent the fall of any such material;

The hoisting platform shall be enclosed when loose material or loaded wheel barrows are placed directly on such platform or lowering such materials or wheel barrows;

Avoid Sudden Jerk - No material shall be raised, lowered or slewed with any lifting appliance in such a way as to cause sudden jerks to such appliance;

In hoisting a barrow, any wheel of such barrow shall not used be as a means of support unless adequate steps have been taken to prevent the axle of such wheel from slipping out of its bearing;

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Guide Rope/Tag Line - Long objects like planks or girders shall be provided with tag line to prevent any possibility of danger while raising or lowering such objects;

During the process of landing or material, a building employee shall not be permitted to lean out into empty space for finding out the loading and unloading of such material;

When hoisting of load is done in an enclosed space, neither the lifting material nor the boom shall project outside the enclosed space;

Contact with any Objects – All required steps shall be taken to prevent a load, in the course of being hoisted or lowered from coming into contact with any object to avoid any displacement of such load and appropriate appliances provided and used for guiding heavy loads when raising or lowering heavy loads to avoid crushing of hands of building workers during such raising or lowering of loads.

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