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Lifting Equipment Standard

This Standard applies to all lifting equipment used by employees, i.e. staff and postgraduate students, at 香港六合彩.

    Scope


    This Standard applies to all lifting equipment used by employees, i.e. staff and postgraduate students, at 香港六合彩. Specifically, it details the arrangements to ensure that such equipment is thoroughly examined/inspected and tested by competent persons at appropriate intervals.

    Arrangements for all other aspects of the management and use of lifting equipment, including planning for lifting operations, are detailed in Safety Services guidance (for Departmental equipment) and 香港六合彩 Estates Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Estates owned equipment.

    Legal requirements


    requires 香港六合彩 to:

    • Ensure that equipment used for lifting is:
      • Sufficiently strong, stable and suitable for the proposed use 鈥 this includes the load and anything attached to it
      • Positioned or installed to prevent the risk of injury
      • Visibly marked with any appropriate information to be taken into account for its safe use, e.g. safe working loads and accessories聽e.g. slings, clamps etc, should be similarly marked
    • Plan, supervise and carry out lifting operations safely, using competent people
    • Ensure that equipment (and any accessories) is thoroughly examined before the first use and at regular intervals thereafter, by a competent person

    Definitions


    • Lifting Equipment: Any equipment used at work for lifting and lowering loads, including attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting it.聽This includes:
      • Equipment such as cranes, fork-lift trucks, lifts, hoists, mobile elevating work platforms and vehicle inspection platform hoists
      • Lifting accessories such as chains, slings, eyebolts etc

    Lifting Operation: An operation concerned with the lifting or lowering of a load and a 鈥渓oad鈥 includes a person.

    Risks associated with lifting equipment


    The main hazards are being injured by:

    • Moving parts of machinery 鈥 for example being drawn in, trapped or crushed
    • Dropped or ejected material
    • Sharp edges or sharp-pointed parts
    • Hot or cold surfaces
    • Parts of the equipment which may fail and/or loads may drop

    Responsibilities


    The principal responsibilities for the management of health and safety are stated in the 香港六合彩 Safety Policy (with line management/delegation of duty shown in the above organogram). Specific responsibilities relating to the management of lifting equipment are stated below.

    In all instances, the term 鈥楻esponsible Person鈥, and the associated duties, applies equally to any nominated deputy formally appointed to act on all occasions when the nominated Responsible Person is unavailable.

    Head of Engineering 鈥撀燫esponsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment Governance

    The Head of Engineering has managerial responsibility for the governance of lifting equipment risk compliance and providing supervision for the implementation of the precautions through:

    • Managerial responsibility for the 香港六合彩 Standard and associated SOPs for the management of 香港六合彩鈥檚 lifting equipment risks
    • Appointing, in writing, 鈥楻esponsible Persons鈥 to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the examination and testing of 香港六合彩鈥檚 lifting equipment (as well as other relevant duties)
    • Ensuring that the Responsible Persons are aware of their roles and responsibilities and that they are competent to carry them out

    The full details, expectations and requirements of this role are contained within the 香港六合彩 Lifting Systems SOP, which is controlled by 香港六合彩 Engineering, Maintenance and Infrastructure.聽

    Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥 Operation

    The Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥 Operation has been delegated the primary role to act as administrator in the management of lifting equipment in accordance with this 香港六合彩 Standard and has managerial responsibility for supervising the implementation of this 香港六合彩 Standard, the SOP, and the management of the lifting equipment under the control of 香港六合彩 Estates.

    Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥 Review and Change

    The Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥撀燫eview and Change has been delegated the managerial responsibility for:

    • Reviewing the compliance and performance against this Standard
    • Preparing the Estates Standard Operating Procedures for lifting equipment management on behalf of the Head of Engineering, and periodically audit their implementation
    • Supervising the implementation of this Standard and the management of any changes, additions to, or replacements of existing installations or equipment, or any new installations of lifting equipment under the control of 香港六合彩 Estates
    • Notification of any changes to holdings of lifting equipment pressure systems at 香港六合彩 to 香港六合彩鈥檚 insurers

    The full details, expectations and requirements of this role are contained within the 香港六合彩 Lifting Equipment Standard Operating Procedure.

    香港六合彩 Estates (Capital Projects, Project Officers and Maintenance)

    香港六合彩 Estates (and any consultants they appoint) are responsible for ensuring equipment is designed, installed and maintained in accordance with this 香港六合彩 Standard, the Standard Operating Procedure and relevant documents listed in the references section of this standard.聽The Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment -鈥 Review and聽Change is to approve each stage of any design.聽No equipment will be accepted unless the Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥 Review and聽Change has given the final written approval.

    Heads of Departments (other than 香港六合彩 Estates), Responsible Person 鈥 Pressure Systems聽Governance

    Heads of Departments are responsible for identifying, assessing and controlling the risks from lifting equipment used in their department not otherwise managed or owned by 香港六合彩 Estates.聽Where such systems exist, the Head of Department must appoint a person(s); the Appointed Person (Statutory Testing) to prepare and maintain a local inventory of specific items and types of equipment (including accessories) to facilitate testing and examination by 香港六合彩鈥檚 competent person. Details of the Appointed Person(s) must be kept in the Responsible Persons Register on riskNET.

    Appointed Person 鈥 Statutory Testing

    The Appointed Person will maintain a list of lifting equipment and associated accessories used by their department.聽This information must be notified to the Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥 Review and Change as required/directed.聽Any changes to the list i.e. new equipment purchased or equipment out of use/disposed of, must be notified to the Responsible Person as soon as possible. New equipment should be notified in advance of installation so that an inspection can be carried out before the first use of the equipment.

    The Appointed Person should liaise with relevant departmental staff to facilitate access, when required, to lifting equipment for the purposes of testing and examination by 香港六合彩鈥檚 competent person.

    Competent Person

    The competent person will be appointed by 香港六合彩 to:

    • Where appropriate, inspect lifting equipment before first use
    • Carry out聽thorough examination and testing of lifting equipment at intervals set out in relevant legislation or else in accordance with a scheme prepared at the聽first inspection
    • Issue reports to 香港六合彩 following preparation of the initial inspection and subsequent examination and testing of lifting equipment

    Records


    The Responsible Person 鈥 Lifting Equipment 鈥撀燨peration will maintain an inventory of all 香港六合彩 lifting equipment and keep records to assist the competent person with their inspections.聽The following records will be kept:

    • Any documents provided by the designer/manufacturer/supplier relating to聽the lifting equipment
    • The
    • The most recent examination report produced by the competent person
    • Any agreement or notification relating to the postponement of the most recent examination scheme
    • All other reports which contain information relevant to the assessment of matters of safety

    Monitoring and review


    This Standard shall be reviewed at least annually to ensure it remains up-to-date.

    References


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    • 听(骋辞惫.耻办)

    Last updated: Thursday, September 13, 2018