BS 7121-2-1:2012

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General
5 Personnel carrying out pre-use checks, in-service
   inspections, maintenance and thorough
   examinations
6 Pre-use checks and in-service inspections
7 Maintenance
8 Thorough examinations
9 Pre-use checks, in-service inspections and thorough
   examination for cranes that have not been
   in use for an extended period of time
10 Supplementary tests in support of thorough
   examination and for other purposes
11 Data logging and condition monitoring systems
12 Additional recommendations for cranes for lifting
   persons and for personnel carriers
   (suspended baskets)
13 Personal fall protection equipment
14 Assessment of wire rope condition and discard
   criteria
Annexes
Annex A (informative) - Beaufort scale
Annex B (informative) - Sea state code
Annex C (informative) - Example of personnel carrier
        pre-use check form
Bibliography

Provides general recommendations for the pre-use checks, in-service inspection, maintenance, thorough examination (following installation, in service and following exceptional circumstances) and supplementary testing of cranes and associated equipment, including gantries, runways and other supporting structures.

This sub-part of BS7121‑2 gives general recommendations for the pre-use checks, in-service inspection, maintenance, thorough examination (following installation, in service and following exceptional circumstances) and supplementary testing of cranes and associated equipment, including gantries, runways and other supporting structures.

This sub-part of BS7121‑2 is also applicable to hoists, derricks, telehandlers, fork lift trucks and excavators when used to lift suspended loads. For the purposes of this standard all these are included under the term “cranes”.

It is not applicable to construction hoists, mast climbing work platforms, mobile elevating work platforms, jacks and suspended access equipment.