Crane Offset Personnel Box Is Available For Hire.
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 offset personnel box
The Plant Yard now has personnel cage boxes for hire as part of its lifting cage hire range.
An offset crane man box (or offset crane work basket) is a specialized suspended personnel platform featuring a cantilevered floor that projects ahead of the primary lifting slings.
It is engineered for accessing recessed, protruding, or difficult-to-reach structural areas where a standard centered crane cage cannot safely position workers
FEATURES
This crane offset man personnel box is designed for the movement via crane of personnel with a small quantity of tools or materials to locations where scaffold or other devices such as a scissor lifts, boom or knuckle booms may not be able to access.
For example work under balconies or parapets where conventional crane boxes are not able to reach due to the angle of the lifting chains on the crane man box fouling the positioning of the man box close enough to the work face
An offset crane man box (or offset crane work basket) is a specialized suspended personnel platform featuring a cantilevered floor that projects ahead of the primary lifting slings. It is engineered for accessing recessed, protruding, or difficult-to-reach structural areas where a standard centered crane cage cannot safely position workers
The Offset Crane Man Box can also be moved around safely on site or offloaded from a truck, using a forklift due to the blade slots present in the base.
IMPORTANT NOTEs about the safe use of crane boxes
Persons suspended from a crane shall only be accommodated in first aid cages or crane personnel work boxes designed for that purpose and the boxes and cages must come with current engineering certification, which we provide on hire.
The use of these crane personnel boxes, also known as a man boxes or crane boxes, shall be limited to those situations where it is necessary to elevate personnel to perform special tasks of short duration and where it is not practicable to use a scaffold or another specially designed device.
These same conditions apply in a first aid evacuation situation where an injured person might need to be safely evacuated to a treatment station. The person operating the crane must operate it from a dedicated position and not travel in the work box or first aid cage. The construction sites first aid cage must only be used for first aid rescue purposes only. If a work box is needed, then a separate cage must be used for the works.
working with crane boxes - Regulations, Standards and guides
There are many regulations and standards to ensure work with crane boxes is safe and without incident.
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
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:
Model Code of Practice - Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces 21102022_0.pdf
Model code of practice - construction work - nov24.pdf
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.
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
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, a multiligual, worldwide standards distribution service.
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To see our crane work box range, click to see our Crane Work Box product catalogue.
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If you have any questions, or would like to hire a cage or request a quote. Please contact us on theplantyard@theplantyard.com.au or call us on +61418256435.
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