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Published in Carrie de Silva, Jennifer Charlson, Jill Dickinson, Stephen Hardy, Emma Pierce-Jenkins, Mark Simcock, Galbraith’s Construction and Land Management Law for Students, 2020
The vast range of workplaces and working situations covered by the Factories Act 1961 meant that the rules, though detailed, could not be very specific. Each working situation will tend to have hazards peculiar to it. In the construction industry statistics show that many accidents are caused by falls – from ladders, scaffolds, platforms or roofs – or by materials falling. Another significant cause of accidents, sometimes fatal, is the use of lifting equipment and machinery. Significant numbers of less serious accidents occur when employees step on, or strike against, objects. There is extra danger for workers in the industry when excavation and tunnelling take place. To take account of these special risks, there were several sets of Regulations in the construction industry: Construction (General Provisions) Regulations 1961Construction (Lifting Operations) Regulations 1961Construction (Working Places) Regulations 1966Construction (Health and Welfare) Regulations 1966
Summary of the main legal requirements
Published in Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction, 2015
Lifting equipment includes any equipment used at work for lifting or lowering loads, including attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting it. The Regulations cover a wide range of equipment including cranes, fork-lift trucks, lifts, hoists, mobile elevating work platforms and vehicle inspection platform hoists. The definition also includes lifting accessories such as chains, slings, eyebolts, etc. LOLER does not apply to escalators; these are covered by more specific legislation, i.e. the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.
Safety, Contracts and Environmental Regulation
Published in Pat M. Cashman, Martin Preene, Groundwater Lowering in Construction, 2020
Lifting operations are governed by the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (known as the LOLER Regulations). The regulations cover all lifting equipment that might be used on site for lifting or lowering loads, including attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting the equipment. Lifting equipment may include cranes, excavators, drilling rigs, forklift trucks and telehandlers, hoists and mobile elevating work platforms, as well as lifting accessories such as chains, slings, eyebolts, etc.
Risk-based inspection applied to two-post above-ground automotive lifts
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Damien Burlet-Vienney, François Gauthier, Bertrand Galy
Periodic inspection of lifting equipment is a requirement in most occupational health and safety regulations (e.g., federal in the USA and Canada, province of Québec in Canada, France) [5–8]. The Canadian Standard No. CSA B167:2016 [9] on lifting equipment (e.g., lift, crane, etc.) prescribes an inspection frequency based on the service class of the equipment.