Lifting Equipment

Lifting equipment is any equipment which lifts persons and/or equipment.

 

Lifting equipment includes: cranes (fixed and mobile), gantry cranes, builders lifts, studio scenery hoists/winches, counterweight sets (portable and fixed), lighting hoists/barrels/monopoles, scaffold hoists, window cleaning hoists and cradles, chain winches (powered and manual), telehandlers, tail lifts, genie lifts, dock levellers, passenger and goods lifts, telescopic communications masts (air, hydraulic or wire operated), blocks and tackle, wire and fibre rope, slings and lifting bonds, load spreaders, hooks, jacks, garage lifts and engine hoists, fork-lift trucks, mobile elevating work platforms and related lifting mechanisms such as hooks, chains, slings, shackles and eyebolts.

 

HSE has specifically identified camera cranes (for example Jimmy Jibs) as lifting equipment.

 

 

 

• Risk assessment and adequate controls must be put in place to protect persons from injury, or damage occurring to equipment, materials or structures.
• Lifting equipment must not be used beyond its design limits e.g. on loading etc.
• Lifting equipment must be checked and inspected regularly.
• Only competent persons are allowed to carry out lifting operations.
• Access to areas where there is lifting equipment in use must be restricted to everyone except authorised and competent persons.