Starting in August, WorkSafe Victoria will be conducting a targeted blitz on hydraulic mobile cranes operating on construction sites.
Recently WorkSafe inspectors attended three serious incidents where heavy machinery at construction sites had overturned, landing on occupied residential houses.
WorkSafe's inspectors will be checking:
During visits, inspectors will use an on-site checklist based on the points listed above.
Source: www.worksafe.vic.gov.au
WorkSafe's inspectors will be checking:
- Licences to perform high risk work
- Logbooks
- Service records
- Crane set up - fully extended and pinned outriggers, bog mats or timbers in place, geo tech report / engineers sign off (if required)
- Exclusion zones (around the crane and under the load path to destination)
- If the crane is operating near overhead / underground assets; has it been controlled?
- For any obvious defects
- Operational warning devices
- Where the crane is set up adjacent to a road / rail; is traffic management in place
- Load charts and manual
- Appropriate lifting gear being used and within load capacity
- Lifting gear inspections
- SWMS
During visits, inspectors will use an on-site checklist based on the points listed above.
Source: www.worksafe.vic.gov.au
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