Mobile Crane Code of Practice 2006
1. Introduction
2. Workplace health and safety obligations
3. Managing health and safety
4. Mobile cranes and construction work
5. Design and plant registration of mobile cranes
6. Risks associated with mobile crane operations
7. Limiting and indicating devices
8. Ergonomic issues
9. Crane documentation and markings
10. Planning and coordinating mobile crane operations
11. Crane stability
12. Minimising risk of injury from collision
13. Erecting and dismantling mobile cranes
14. Operational issues
15. Requirements for mobile cranes used in other circumstances
16. Use of other mobile plant as a mobile crane
17. Vehicle-loading cranes
18. Training
19. Inspecting, testing, maintenance and repair of mobile cranes
Appendices
Important information about this code of practice
This code of practice:
- was made on 11 May 2006.
- commences on 1 July 2006.
- expires 10 years after its commencement.
What is this code of practice about?
The purpose of this code of practice is to give practical advice about ways to manage the workplace health and safety risks associated with mobile cranes.
Workplace health and safety obligations
The objective of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB) is to prevent a person's death, injury or illness being caused by a workplace, by a relevant workplace area, by work activities, or by plant or substances for use at a workplace.
The objective is achieved by preventing or minimising a person's exposure to the risk of death, injury or illness caused by a workplace, by a relevant workplace area, by work activities or by plant or substances for use at a workplace.
The Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 establishes a framework for preventing or minimising exposure to risk by:
- imposing workplace health and safety obligations on certain persons who may affect the health and safety of others by their acts or omissions; and
- establishing benchmarks for industry through the making of regulations and codes of practice.
How can I meet my obligations?
Under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 there are three types of legislative instruments that assist to meet workplace health and safety obligations—regulations, ministerial notices and codes of practice.
If there is a regulation or ministerial notice that prescribes a way of preventing or minimising exposure to a risk, or prohibits exposure to a risk, a person must follow the prescribed way.
If there is a code of practice stating a way of managing exposure to a risk:
- the stated way must be adopted and followed to manage the exposure to the risk; or
- a person must adopt and follow another way that gives the same level of protection against the risk, and take reasonable precautions and exercise proper diligence.
If there is no regulation, ministerial notice or code of practice about a risk, a person discharges the person's workplace health and safety obligation for exposure to the risk by doing both of the following:
- adopting and following any way to discharge the person's workplace health and safety obligation for exposure to the risk; and
- taking reasonable precautions, and exercising proper diligence, to ensure the obligation is discharged.
Note
There may be additional risks in the workplace, which are not specifically addressed in this code of practice.
The Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 specifies particular ways in which workplace health and safety must be ensured in particular circumstances.
This code of practice should be read in conjunction with the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 and other relevant codes of practice. Where applicable, these codes of practice are referred to in the text.
Further information is available from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.
References to legislation, Australian Standards and other documents in this code of practice are current at the time of printing. It is the responsibility of the reader to check whether these documents are current at the time of reading.
Hard copies of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland legislation and codes of practice are available from Goprint. Please telephone (07) 3246 3399.
Last updated March 23, 2007