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CSA Z150-2016
Z150-16 - Safety code on mobile cranes
Preface
This is the fourth edition of CSA Z150, Safety code on mobile cranes. It supersedes the previous editions published in 2011, 1998, and 1974. This Standard is designed to a) guard against and minimize injury to workers, and otherwise provide for the protection of life, limb, health, and property, by specifying minimum safety requirements for mobile cranes; b) provide direction and guidance to manufacturers and buyers of mobile cranes regarding the minimum standards expected of such machines in Canada; c) provide direction and guidance to owners, employers, supervisors, workers, users, and others concerned with, responsible for, or involved in the application and use of mobile cranes; and d) guide Canadian federal, provincial/territorial, and other regulatory bodies in the development and promulgation of appropriate health and safety legislation and directives concerning mobile cranes. This edition of CSA Z150 includes an expansion of the scope to cover requirements for locomotive cranes as well as updates to the requirements for construction and characteristics of mobile cranes, inspection, testing and maintenance, operation, and wire rope.Scope
1.1 This Standard describes the design, construction, load rating, installation, erection, inspection, maintenance, repair, modification, test, and operation of lattice and telescopic boom mobile cranes. Note: See Annex A for illustrations of mobile cranes and Annex B for illustrations of parts of a mobile crane. 1.2 This Standard applies only to machines that have all of the following fundamental characteristics: a) the crane comprises, or is mounted on, a non- or self-propelled, crawler- or wheel-mounted mobile base; b) the crane is designed and manufactured for the primary purpose of hoisting and lowering loads by means of tackle suspended from a boom; c) the boom is lattice or telescopic and capable of being elevated and lowered in the vertical plane and of being rotated (swung) from side to side in the horizontal plane; d) the tackle is suspended from the boom and is capable of being increased and diminished in length; and e) the crane utilizes an engine(s) or motor(s) of sufficient power to- i) elevate and lower the boom in the vertical plane with the load suspended from the tackle; ii) rotate (swing) the boom in the horizontal plane with the load suspended from the tackle; iii) increase and diminish the length of the tackle with the load suspended from the tackle; and iv) in the case of a self-propelled crane, propel the vehicle, carrier, or base on which or to which the boom and hoist mechanism is attached.
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