Section 64 in The Building And Other Construction Workers '(Regulation Of Employment And Conditions Of Service) Central Rules, 1998
64. Operation of lifting appliances.
- The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that-(a)every crane driver or lifting operator possess adequate skill and training in the operation of the particular lifting appliance;(b)no person under eighteen years of age is in control of any lifting appliance, scaffold winch, or to give signals to the operator;(c)precaution is taken by the trained operator to prevent lifting appliance from being set in motion;(d)the operation of lifting appliance is governed by signals, in conformity with the relevant national standards;(e)the lifting appliance operator 's attention is not distracted while he is working;(f)no crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance or any part of such crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance is, except for testing purposes, loaded beyond the safe working load;(g)during the hoisting operations effective precaution is taken to prevent any person from standing or passing under the load in such operations;(h)operator does not leave lifting appliance unattended while power is on or load is suspended to such appliance;(i)no person rides on a suspended load or on any lifting appliance;(j)every part of a load in course of being hoisted or lowered is adequately suspended and supported to prevent danger;(k)every receptacle used for hoisting bricks, tiles, slates or other material is suitably enclosed as to prevent the fall of any such materials;(l)the hoisting platform is enclosed when loose materials or loaded wheel-barrows are placed directly on such platform or on lowering, such materials or wheel-barrows;(m)no material is raised, lowered or slowed with any lifting appliance in such a way as to cause sudden jerks to such appliance;(n)in hoisting a barrow, any wheel of such barrow is not used as a means of support unless adequate steps are taken to prevent the axle of such wheel from slipping out of its bearings;(o)long objects like planks or girders are provided with a tag line to prevent any possibility of danger while raising or lowering such objects;(p)during the process of landing of material, a building worker is not permitted to lean out into empty space for finding out the loading and unloading of such material;(q)the hoisting of loads at places where there is regular flow of traffic is carried out in an enclosed space, or in case such hoisting is impracticable in enclosed space, measures are taken to hold up or divert the traffic during the time of such hoisting;(r)adequate steps are taken to prevent a load, in the course of being hoisted or lowered from coming into contact with any object to avoid any displacement of such load;(s)appliances are provided and used for guiding heavy loads when raising or lowering heavy loads to avoid crushing of hands of building workers during such raising or lowering of loads.
