September Safety Initiative - Week Three

Standards & Guidance 014 Lifting Operations It provides guidance on:

• Competencies of lift team, including written appointments;
• Producing lift plan and use of excavator track bearing pressure tool;
• Determining lift category – following CPA guidance;
• Requirements on using excavators as cranes including pick and carry duties.

BCE expectations for Lifting Operations The lifting operation must be:

• Properly planned by an Appointed Person;
• Supervised safely by a Lift Supervisor where deemed necessary;
• Carried out safely with qualified Slinger/Signallers and Excavator Operators;
• lift plan produced, available, & briefed, which identifies the Appointed Person, the Lift Supervisor, the Slinger / Signaller and the Crane or Excavator Driver & loads and complexity identified.

• Where lifting equipment and lifting accessories are being used, they must be inspected on a daily basis by a competent person and a record of this inspection kept
• Excavators used as cranes must be rated to do so and be equipped with a load hooking device and have:-
• a boom lowering control device on the raising (main) boom cylinder(s) and which meets the requirements of ISO 8643:1997 and;
• an acoustic or visual warning device which indicates to the operator when the object handling capacity or corresponding load moment is reached;
• A current thorough examination certificate.
• Excavator Operators, where the excavator is used as a crane, must hold a valid CPCS (A98) or NPORS (N100) card, with lifting operations endorsements for the category of excavator they are operating.

please see below links; Guidance-on-Lifting-with-Excavators S&G 014 – Lifting Operations Construction – Lifting operations (hse.gov.uk)