1983 Ed.]
Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations
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[Subsidiary]
loading or unloading goods, plant, or material, or, in the case of cage used for the carriage of persons, to allow persons to enter or leave the cage.
(2) Every person using a hoist shall ensure that the gate is closed immediately after use unless it is for the time being necessary to keep the gate open in accordance with paragraph (1)(d).
(3) The contractor responsible for a hoist shall—
(a) unless it is impracticable to do so, provide and maintain efficient devices which will support its platform or cage and its safe working load in the event of the failure of the hoist rope or ropes or any of the hoisting gear; and
(b) provide and maintain one or more efficient automatic devices which will ensure that the platform or cage of the hoist does not pass the highest point to which it is designed to travel.
32. (1) The contractor responsible for a hoist shall ensure that-
(a) it is not used unless it is, as far as practicable, constructed in such a way that it can be operated only from one position at any one time; and
(b) it is operated only when the requirements of regulation 36 are complied with.
(2) Where a workman operating a hoist does not have a clear and unrestricted view of the hoist's carriage, platform or cage throughout its travel (except at points where such a view is not necessary for safe working), the contractor responsible for the hoist shall make effective arrangements for signals for operating the hoist to be given to the workman from each landing place at which the hoist is used and to enable him to stop the carriage, platform or cage at the appropriate level.
33. The contractor responsible for a hoist, which is operated by means of a winch, shall ensure that the hoist is not used-
(a) unless the winch is so constructed that the brake is applied when the control lever, handle or switch is not held in the operating position; or
(b) if the winch is fitted with a pawl and ratchet gear on which the pawl has to be disengaged, before the platform or cage can be lowered.
34. (1) The contractor responsible for a hoist shall-
(a) cause the safe working load applicable to the hoist to be clearly and legibly marked on its platform or cage; and
(b) ensure that it is not used to carry any load greater than that safe working load, except that for the purpose of carrying
Operation of hoists.
L.N. 280 78.
Winches.
Safe working load and marking of hoists.