PNNL Hoisting and Rigging Manual
Introduction
| Purpose | Scope | Background | Manual Organization | Mandatory and Advisory Rules |
Purpose
This manual describes the safe and cost effective operation, inspection, maintenance, and repair requirements for cranes, hoists, fork trucks, slings, rigging hardware and hoisting equipment. From time to time, lifting is performed with equipment other than cranes, hoists, and fork trucks. When using any equipment for material handling, follow the equipment manufacturer's instructions.
EXAMPLE: Excavation equipment, such as a backhoe, may have a hook installed on the bucket. It is acceptable to use such equipment for hoisting and rigging if the manufacturer provides instructions for use. The manufacturer's instructions should include load capacity information.
See Footnote 1 for examples of other equipment not within the scope of this manual.1
Scope
This manual is intended to be a user's guide to requirements, codes, laws, regulations, standards, and practices that apply to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its subcontractors.
This manual is generally invoked via contract. Whether or not this manual is invoked, hoisting and rigging work is required by law to be in compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) (29 CFR 1910 or 29 CFR 1926) and work involving critical lifts should follow this manual. As a minimum, acceptability of equipment, rigging and critical lift procedures should be verified by the Hoisting and Rigging subject matter expert (SME).
Background
Information for this manual is based on the Hanford Site Hoisting and Rigging Manual (DOE-RL-92-36). Any lack of clarity, errors, omissions, interpretations or discrepancies should be addressed to Hoisting and Rigging SME.
Manual Organization
This is a user's manual. It designates areas of responsibility regarding hoisting and rigging activities and stipulates operation, maintenance, and repair requirements for hoisting and rigging equipment and components. Topics have been grouped to make the manual user friendly. While selected design considerations are included in this manual, primarily as information to operators and inspectors, this manual is a user's manual, not a design manual.
Mandatory and Advisory Rules
Mandatory rules are characterized by use of the word shall. If a provision is of an advisory nature, it is indicated by use of the word should and is to be considered; its advisability depends on the facts in each situation.
1For example, the following types of equipment are not within the scope of this manual: elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, moving walks, conveyor systems, drill and pump setting rigs, manipulators, specially insulated hoists for handling high-voltage lines, door-and hatch-opening equipment, vehicle-mounted elevating and rotating aerial devices, elevating work platforms, aerial lifts, and earth-moving and excavation equipment.