### Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations 《工廠及工業經營(起重機械及起重裝置)規例》

9. Platforms for crane drivers and signallers
(1) Where a crane has a platform for the use of the person driving or operating the crane, or for any signaller (where good safe working practice requires a signaller in connexion with the use of the crane), the owner shall ensure that it is not used unless the platform is—
(a) of sufficient area for the persons employed on it;
(b) either close planked or plated; and
(c) provided with a safe means of access.
(2) If any such platform has a side from which a person may fall a distance of more than 2 metres, the owner shall ensure that the crane is not used unless—
(a) there is affixed to the platform a suitable guard rail of adequate strength to a height of not less than 900 millimetres above the platform and above any raised standing place therein;
(b) the side is provided with one or more toe boards placed—
(i) at a height not less than 200 millimetres above the level of the platform and any raised standing place on it; and
(ii) in a position that will prevent as far as possible the fall of persons, materials, and tools, from the platform; and
(c) the space between any toe board on the platform and the lowest guard rail above it does not exceed 700 millimetres. (L.N. 238 of 1984)
(3) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation, a guard rail or toe board required under this regulation may be removed or remain unerected for such period and to such extent as is necessary for any person to gain access to and egress from the platform or for materials to be removed to it or from it.

10. Cabins for drivers
(1) The owner of a power-driven lifting appliance shall ensure that it is not used unless it is provided with a suitable cabin which— (L.N. 285 of 1993)
(a) affords the driver or operator of the appliance adequate protection from the weather; and
(b) is so constructed as to—
(i) give him a clear and unrestricted view that will enable him to use the appliance safely; and
(ii) afford ready access to those parts of the appliance that are within the cabin and require periodic inspection or maintenance.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply—
(a) where the driver or operator is indoors or otherwise adequately protected from the weather;
(b) to a lifting appliance mounted on wheels and having a maximum safe working load of 1 tonne or less;
(c) to any machine incorporating a lifting appliance where the primary purpose of that machine is not that of a lifting appliance; or
(d) to a lifting appliance intended for occasional use or for use for only short periods. (L.N. 285 of 1993)

### Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations 《工廠及工業經營(起重機械及起重裝置)規例》

11. Marking of safe working loads
(1) The owner of a lifting appliance shall ensure that the appliance is not used unless the safe working load for the time being applicable to the appliance is clearly and legibly marked on it, in English and Chinese, together with an appropriate mark to distinguish it from other similar appliances.
(2) The owner of a crane (including a crane with a derricking jib) which has a variable operating radius shall ensure that the crane is not used unless it—
(a) has clearly and legibly marked on it the safe working load at various radii of the jib, trolley or crab, and, in the case of a crane with a derricking jib, the maximum radius at which the jib may be worked; and
(b) is fitted with an accurate indicator, clearly visible to the driver, which shows the radius of the jib, trolley or crab at any particular time and the safe working load applicable to that radius.

12. Load not to exceed the safe working load
The owner of a lifting appliance shall ensure that it is not used if it is loaded beyond the maximum safe working load:
Provided that, for the purpose of enabling tests of any such appliance to be carried out, the safe working load may be exceeded by such amount as the competent examiner appointed to carry out the test may authorize.

12A. Competent person to be in charge if load left suspended
The owner of a lifting appliance shall ensure that no load is left suspended from a lifting appliance unless a competent person is in charge of the lifting appliance during the period of suspension.
(L.N. 191 of 1978)

13. Scotch and guy derrick cranes
(1) The owner of a Scotch derrick crane shall ensure that it is not used—
(a) if the jib of the crane is erected between the crane’s backstays; and
(b) unless appropriate measures are taken to prevent the foot of the king post of the crane from being lifted out of its socket or support when the crane is in use; or
(c) to move any load in the angle between the crane’s backstays.
(2) Where the guys of a guy derrick crane cannot be fixed—
(a) at approximately equal angles to the mast of the crane; and
(b) so that the angles between adjacent pairs of guys are approximately equal,
the owner of the crane shall take such other measures as will ensure its stability.

### Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances and Lifting Gear) Regulations 《工廠及工業經營(起重機械及起重裝置)規例》

14. Cranes with derricking jibs
(1) The owner of a crane having a derricking jib operated through a clutch mechanism shall ensure that the crane is not used unless it is provided with a properly maintained and effective locking arrangement, placed between the derricking clutch and the pawl sustaining the derricking drum, which will ensure that—
(a) the clutch cannot be disengaged unless the pawl is effectively engaged with the derricking drum; and
(b) the pawl cannot be disengaged unless the clutch is effectively engaged with the derricking drum.
(2) This regulation shall not apply to a crane in which—
(a) the hoisting drum and the derricking drum are independently driven; or
(b) the mechanism driving the derricking drum is self locking.

15. Restriction on the use of cranes
(1) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), the owner of a crane shall ensure that the crane’s hoisting mechanism is not used for any purpose other than raising or lowering a load vertically unless—
(a) he has taken all reasonable steps to see that no undue stress is imposed on any part of the structure or mechanism of the crane thereby endangering the stability of the crane; and (71 of 1989 s. 13)
(b) such use is supervised by a competent person.
(2) The owner of a crane which has a derricking jib shall ensure that it is not used with the jib extended at a radius which exceeds the maximum radius specified for the jib in the current certificate of test and thorough examination relating to that crane.