APPENDIX C: REFERENCE STANDARDS AND CODES

Reference Standards and Documents (in addition to those specified in this Approved Code)

AS 1418.1

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – General Requirements

AS 1418.2

Cranes (Including Hoists and Winches) – Serial Hoists and Winches

AS 1418.3

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – Bridge, Gantry, Portal (Including Container Cranes) and Jib Cranes

AS 1418.4

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – Tower Cranes

AS 1418.5

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – Mobile Cranes

AS 1418.11

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – Vehicle-Loading Cranes

AS 1418.17

Cranes (Including Hoists and Winches) – Design and Construction of Workboxes

AS 1418.18

Cranes, Hoists and Winches – Crane Runways and Monorails

AS 2550 (set)

Safe Use of Cranes, Hoists and Winches– corresponds to AS 1418 i.e. 2550.18 and AS 1418.18 deal with the same item of equipment

AS/NZS 1170.2:

Structural Design Actions – Wind Actions

AS/NZS 1554.1-6 (set)

Structural Steel Welding

AS/NZS 1891.4

Industrial Fall-Arrest Systems and Devices - Selection, Use and Maintenance

AS/NZS 3000

Electrical Installations

BS 466: 1984

Specification for Power Driven Overhead Travelling Cranes, Semi-Goliath and Goliath Cranes for General Use

BS 1757

Specification for Power-Driven Mobile Cranes

BS 2452

Specification for Electrically Driven Jib Cranes Mounted on a High Pedestal or Portal Carriage (High Pedestal or Portal Jib Cranes)

BS 2853

Specification for the Design and Testing of Steel Overhead Runway Beams

BS 5744

Code of Practice for Safe Use of Cranes Overhead/Underhung Travelling and Goliath Cranes, High Pedestal and Portal Jib Dockside Cranes, Manually-Operated and Light Cranes, Container Handling Cranes and Rail-Mounted Low Carriage Cranes)

BS 7121 (set)

Safe Use of Cranes

BS 7262

Specification for automatic safe load indicators

BS 7333

Specification for Slewing Jib Cranes

BS CP 3010

Code of Practice for Safe Use of Cranes (Mobile Cranes, Tower Cranes and Derrick Cranes)

FEM 1.007

Recommendations to maintain tower cranes in safe condition

BS EN 12999

Cranes. Loader Cranes

BS EN 1677–5

Components for Slings. Safety. Forged Steel Lifting Hooks with Latch. Grade 4

BS EN 13001– 1

Crane Safety. General Design. General Principles and Requirements

BS EN 13155

Cranes. Safety. Non-Fixed Load Lifting Attachments

BS EN 1459

Safety of Industrial Trucks. Self-Propelled Variable Reach Trucks

BS ISO 1837

Lifting Hooks. Nomenclature

ISO 4309

Cranes. Wire ropes. Care, Maintenance, Installation, Examination and Discard

ISO 8083

Machinery for Forestry – Falling-Object Protective Structures (FOPS) – Laboratory Tests and Performance Requirements

ISO 8084

Machinery for Forestry –  Operator protective Structures - Laboratory Tests and Performance Requirements

ISO 8084

Machinery for forestry – Operator protective structures – Laboratory tests and performance requirements

NZS 1170.5

Structural Design Actions – Earthquake Actions

NZS 4203

General Structural Design and Design Loadings for Buildings

NZS 4711

Qualification Tests for Metal-Arc welders

NZS/AS 2359.1

Powered Industrial Trucks – General Requirements

NZS/BS 2573–1

Rules for the Design of Cranes - Specification for classification, stress calculations and design criteria for structures

NZS/BS 2573–2

Rules for the Design of Cranes - Specification for classification, stress calculations and design of mechanisms

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• Approved Code of Practice for Load-lifting Rigging
• Approved Code of Practice for the Safe Handling, Transportation and Erection of Precast Concrete
• Approved Code of Practice for Demolition
• Crane Safety Manual for Operators/Users, available from the Crane Association
• Electricity Regulations and subsequent amendments
• Lifting Equipment Engineers of New Zealand – Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment
• NZECP 34:2001 New Zealand Electrical Code of Practice for Electrical Safe Distances