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As a PCBU, you have a responsibility to ensure machinery in the workplace are safe to use and operate. You must ensure that a competent person, such as an engineer, performs crane inspections and tests cranes.
This includes:
- Regular inspection and testing on items of plant
- Major inspection on registrable mobile cranes and tower cranes
- Inspection and testing required for plant item re-registration.
Inspection and testing must use:
- The manufacturer’s instructions
- A competent person’s specifications, according to relevant technical standards and engineering principles (if manufacturer’s instructions are not available)
More information on crane inspection and maintenance is in the Guide to inspecting and maintaining cranes.
Planning for emergencies with cranes
As a PCBU, you must ensure you have an emergency plan in place. This includes an emergency plan for cranes. You must test the plan in the workplace and include:
- Effective response evacuation.
- Notifying emergency services, with their phone numbers highlighted and easy to find.
- Medical treatment.
More information can be found in the Model Code of Practice: Tower Cranes
For more information
Model Code of Practice
Other resources
- General guide to cranes
- Guide to inspecting and maintaining cranes
- Guide to mobile cranes
- Guide for safe design of plant
- Guide for importing and supplying safe plant
- Crane lifted work boxes - Information sheet
- Using powered mobile plant as a crane - Information sheet
- Quick hitches for earthmoving machinery - Information sheet
- Vehicle loading cranes - Information sheet
- Safe Work Australia webpage – Plant
- Safe Work Australia webpage – Cranes
- Safe Work Australia webpage – Elevating work platforms
