TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Acknowledgements
• Notice of Issue – Third Edition
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• A Summary of The Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
• Regulations (Section 21)
• Approved Codes of Practice (Section 20)
• Employers’ Duties (Section 6)
• Hazard Management (Sections 7 to 10)
• Information for Employees and Health and Safety Representatives (Section 12)
• Training and Supervision of Employees (Section 13)
• Employers to Provide Opportunities for Employee Participation (Part 2A)
• Responsibility for Employees’ Work Activities (Section 15)
• Deemed Employees
• Duties of Employees (Section 19)
• Duties of the Self-Employed (Section 17)
• Duties of Principals (Section 18)
• Hirers, sellers and suppliers of plant (Section 18A)
• Persons in Control of a Place of Work (Section 16)
• Accidents and Serious Harm Recording and Notification (Sections 25 and 26)
• Part 1: General
• 1.1 Preface
• 1.2 Scope
• 1.3 interpretation
• 1.4 Definitions
• Part 2: Application of The PEPCR Regulations
• 2.1 Regulations
• 2.2 Duties of Controllers
• 2.3 Duties in Relation to Unsafe Equipment
• 2.4 Duties of Designers, Manufacturers and Suppliers
• 2.5 Administrative Provisions
• 2.6 Certificates
• Part 3:  Operational Requirements for Controllers
  • 3.1 Operations
• 3.2 Routine Checking
• 3.3 inspection and Certification
• 3.4 Alterations and Repairs
• 3.5 Maintenance
• 3.6 Accident Notification
• 3.7 Designated Design Life
• Part 4: Requirements for Persons Operating or Working With Cranes
• Unit Standards
• Part 5: Requirements of Designers
• 5.1 Requirements
• Part 6: Requirements of Design Verifiers
• 6.1 Requirements
• 6.2 Design Verification
• Part 7: Requirements of Manufacturers
• 7.1 Requirements
• Part 8: Requirements of Suppliers and Importers
• 8.1 Requirements
• Part 9: Functions of Equipment inspectors and inspection Bodies
• 9.1 Functions
• 9.2 inspections
• Part 10: Mobile Cranes
• 10.1 General
• 10.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 11: Tower Cranes
• 11.1 General
• 11.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 12: Self-Erecting Tower Cranes
• 12.1 General
• 12.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 13: Gantry Cranes
• 13.1 General
• 13.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 14: Truck Loader Type Cranes (including Knuckle Boom and Telescopic/Straight Boom)
• 14.1 General
• 14.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 15: Tractor Cranes and Side Boom Pipe Layers
• 15.1 General
• 15.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 16: Other Cranes or Equipment Used As Cranes
• 16.1 General
• 16.2 Additional Requirements
• Part 17: Crane-Lifted Work Platforms
• 17.1 General
• Part 18: Demolition Ball Operations
• 18.1 Machines
• 18.2 Operator Protective Structures
• 18.3 Demolition Balls
• Appendix A:  Load Safety Devices/Safe Load indicators
• Appendix B: Hand Signals
• Appendix C:  Reference Standards and Codes
• Appendix D: Seismic Requirements for The Design of Tower, Portal and High Pedestal Cranes
• Appendix E: Stability Requirements for The Design of Tower, Portal and High Pedestal Cranes Under Seismic Loading
• Appendix F:  Personal Protective Equipment
• Appendix G: Common Hazards Associated With Tower Crane Erection, Dismantling and Climbing Work
• Appendix H: Tower Crane inspections Checklist (informative)
• Tower Crane Climbing Frame inspection Test Report/Worksheet
• Self Erecting Tower Crane inspection Worksheet
• Tower Crane inspection Test Report/Worksheet
• Appendix I: Effective Equipment inspector Supervision

Picture 1: Crawler Crane