BS 7121-2:2003

Committees responsible
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General
5 Personnel carrying out pre-use checks, in-service
   inspections and thorough examinations
6 Periodic pre-use checks and in-service inspections
7 Thorough examinations
8 Pre-use checks and in-service inspections for cranes
   and other equipment not in use for an extended period
   of time
9 Testing as part of thorough examination
10 Data logging
11 Additional recommendations for cranes for lifting persons
   and suspended baskets
12 Assessment of wire rope condition and discard criteria
13 Additional recommendations for mobile cranes
14 Additional recommendations for overhead travelling cranes
15 Additional recommendations for tower cranes
16 Additional recommendations for loader cranes
Annex A (informative) Information to be contained in a report
         of a thorough examination
Annex B (informative) Beaufort scale
Annex C (informative) Sea state code
Annex D (informative) Example of load test certificate
Annex E (normative) Example of personnel carrier pre-use check
         form
Annex F (informative) Example of a wire rope test certificate
Annex G (informative) Example of typical procedure for climbing
         frame thorough examinations and checks
Annex H (informative) Tower crane foundation pre-erection
         inspection certificate
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Provides recommendations for the pre-use checks, in-service inspection, thorough examination and testing of cranes, including associated equipment, and the means by which tests are to be carried out.