Approved Code of Practice for Cranes
Appendix C: Reference Standards and documents
AS 1418.1-2002 Cranes, hoists and winches - General requirements
AS 1418.2-1997 Cranes (including hoists and winches) - Serial hoists and winches
AS 1418.3-1997 Cranes, hoists and winches - Bridge, gantry, portal (including container cranes) and jib cranes
AS 1418.4-2004 Cranes, hoists and winches - Tower cranes
AS 1418.5-2002 Cranes, hoists and winches - Mobile cranes
AS 1418.11-2004 Cranes. hoists and winches - Vehicleloading cranes
AS 1418.17-1996 Cranes (including hoists and winches) - Design and construction of workboxes
AS 1418.18-2001 Cranes, hoists and winches - Crane runways and monorails
AS 2550 (set) Safe use of cranes, hoists and winches - corresponds to AS 1418 i.e. 2550.18 and AS 1418.18 deal with the same item of equipment.
AS/NZS 1170.2: 2002 Structural design actions - Wind actions
AS/NZS 1554.1-6 (set) Structural steel welding
AS/NZS 3000:2000 Electrical installations
BS 466: 1984 Specification for power driven overhead travelling cranes, semi-goliath and goliath cranes for general use
BS 1757 Specification for power-driven mobile cranes
BS 2452:1954 Specification for electrically driven jib cranes mounted on a high pedestal or portal carriage (high pedestal or portal jib cranes)
BS 2853:1957 Specification for the design and testing of steel overhead runway beams
BS 5744:1979 Code of practice for safe use of cranes (overhead/underhung travelling and goliath cranes, high pedestal and portal jib dockside cranes, manually-operated and light cranes, container handling cranes and rail-mounted low carriage cranes)
BS 7121 (set) Safe use of cranes
BS 7262:1990 Specification for automatic safe load indicators
BS 7333:1990 Specification for slewing jib cranes
BS CP 3010:1972 Code of practice for safe use of cranes (mobile cranes, tower cranes and derrick cranes)
BS EN 12999: 2002 Cranes. Loader cranes
BS EN1677-5:2001 Components for slings. Safety. Forged steel lifting hooks with latch. Grade 4
BS EN 13001- 1:2004 Crane safety. General design. General principles and requirements
BS EN 13155 Cranes. Safety. Non-fixed load lifting attachments
BS EN 1459:1999 Safety of industrial trucks. Self-propelled variable reach trucks
BS ISO 1837:2003 Lifting hooks. Nomenclature
ISO 4309:2004 Cranes. Wire ropes. Care, maintenance, installation, examination and discard
ISO 8083:2006 Machinery for forestry - Falling-object protective structures (FOPS) - Laboratory tests and performance requirements
NZS 1170.2: 2002 Structural design actions - Wind actions
NZS 1170.5:2004 Structural design actions - Earthquake actions
NZS 4203:1992 General structural design and design loadings for buildings
NZS 4711:1984 Qualification tests for metal-arc welders
NZS/AS 2359.1:1995 Powered industrial trucks - General requirements
NZS/BS 2573-1:1983 Rules for the design of cranes. Specification for classification, stress calculations and design criteria for structures
NZS/BS 2573-2:1980 Rules for the design of cranes. Specification for classification, stress calculations and design of mechanisms
Approved Code of Practice for Load-lifting Rigging
Approved Code of Practice for the Safe Handling, Transportation and Erection of Precast Concrete
Approved Code of Practice for Demolition
Crane Safety Manual for Operators/Users, available from the Crane Association
Electricity Regulations 1997
Lifting Equipment Engineers of New Zealand - Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment