BS 7121-1:1989

Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Management of the lifting operation
4. Planning of the lifting operation
5. Selection and duties of personnel
6. Minimum attributes of personnel
7. Selection of cranes
8. Safety
9. Siting of cranes
10. Erection and dismantling
11. Procedures and precautions
12. Operating conditions
13. Testing and examination
14. Legal requirements
15. Ropes
16. Slinging and handling of loads
17. Raising or lowering of personnel
18. Balling operations
19. Signalling systems
Tables
1. Legal requirements for the inspection, testing and
     thorough examination of cranes
2. Severity of deterioration of steel wire ropes
3. Typical examples of cumulative effect of
     deterioration of steel wire ropes
4. Weight of materials
Figures
1. Adverse effect of a swinging load on load radius
2. Recommended crane signals
3. Side loading on jib
4. Paying out rope
5. Serving of ropes (before cutting)
6. Transferring rope from reel to reel
7. Some points to be considered during the examination
     of the rope

Includes safe systems of work, management, planning, general recommendations for selection, erection and dismantling, testing, operation and maintenance of cranes and the selection of drivers, slingers and signallers.