Crane Boxes - Regulations, Standards and Guides
A crane offset man personnel box is designed for the movement of personnel with a small quantity of tools or materials to locations by crane
crane boxes - Regulations, Standards and guides
The Plant Yard Sydney offers crane man boxes for hire.
They are designed for carrying personnel via crane to out of reach working areas.
Commonly used when scaffolding and elevated working platforms are not practical.
Regulations, Standards and guides
There are many regulations and standards to ensure work with crane boxes is safe and without incident.
Practical Information
The “Crane Lifted Work Boxes Information Sheet” is the most helpful document as it offers practical information about many aspects of crane work boxes:
work box requirements
crane requirements
how to provide a high level of safety when moving people
Model Codes
The following two Model Codes of Practice have helpful information about fall prevention and plans or methods that can be implimented to improve safety when crane boxes in construction:
Understanding and preventing equipment failure
If you are looking for a document to help develope your appreciation of how different types of equipment failure can occur and how to prevent these incidents, the NSW Dogging and Rigging Guide (large document) might be something you are interested in.
High Risk Work Licences
A document that helps with many aspects of licencing requirements for high risk work like using crane boxes is High Risk Work Licences by Safework NSW
Australian Standards
There are many Australian Standards documents but some are available that can provide important information about design, construction and safe use of crane boxes. They are available for a fee from either Standards Australia store or Norm Splash which is a multiligual, worldwide standards distribution service.
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Click to read our blog post about the Difference between First Aid Cages and Man Boxes.
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