Description

BS 2799 – Specification for power-driven tower cranes for building and engineering construction

Applies to tower cranes as used on building sites and in works of engineering construction where the crane is dismantled when it has served its purpose. Both horizontal jib and luffing jib cranes are covered and these may be of the travelling, fixed or climbing type.

Cross References:
BS 302
BS 327
BS 350
BS 357
BS 436
BS 466
BS 545
BS 587
BS 649
BS 721
BS765
BS 775
BS 800
BS 833
BS 1486:Part 1
BS 1486:Part 2
BS 1757
BS 1761
BS 2059
BS 2452
BS 2521 & 2523
BS 2525-27
BS 2573:Part 1
BS 2573:Part 2
BS 2613
BS 2771
BS 2903
BS 3032
BS 3037:Part 1
BS 3139
BS 3294
BS 3535
BS 3550
BS 3551
BS 3579
BS 4235
BS 4395
BS 4533:Part 2:Section 2.3
BS 4604
BS 6007
BS 6116
BS 6500
CP 1013
CP 1017
CP 3010
Construction (Lifting Operations) Regulations 1961
Construction (Lifting Operations) Reports Order 1962
Construction (Lifting Operations) Prescribed Particulars Order 1962
Construction (Lifting Operations) Certificates Order 1961
Construction (General Provisions) Regulations 1961
S.I. 1966/94
Construction (Working Places) Regulations 1966
Electricity Regulations 1908
Electricity (Factories Act) Special Regulations 1944
Factories Act, 1961
Chains, Ropes and Lifting Tackle (Register) Order 1938
Lifting Machines (Particulars of Examinations) Order 1963
Docks Regulations 1934
Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960
Shipbuilding (Reports on Chains and Lifting Gear) Order 1961
Shipbuilding (Reports on Ropes and Rope Slings) Order 1961
Shipbuilding (Particulars of Annealing) Order 1961
Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961
S.I. 1964/530
Shipbuilding (Reports on Lifting Appliances) Order 1961
Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966
Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1966
Agricultural (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act, 1956
Agricultural (Stationary Machinery) Regulations 1959
Agricultural (Field Machinery) Regulations 1962
Mines and Quarries Act, 1954
Coal and Other Mines (Electricity) Regulations 1956
Miscellaneous Mines (Electricity) Regulations 1956
Quarries (Electricity) Regulations 1956
Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949