Additional definitions suggested
- CAZ - Controlled Access Zone -- an area determined by the project safety
professional and lift team to warrant special access and special safety
requirements during lifting operations Spotter -- a member of the lift team
delegated to assist the location of the landing of a load Dedicated Spotter -- a
member of the lift team officially delegated by the site specific safety plan and lift
plan to spot / locate the load Signal Person - delegated member(s) of the lift
team to provide hoisting communications/ signals to the hoist operator; certified
by both training and third party testing
CDAC Comments on Proposed language
PAGE SECTION COMMENT 5 880 1404 A. Add plan requirements for erection,
dismantling, jumping, boom
B. Prelift meetings with all personnel to review approved plan modifications
1. Planning/Details meeting 1 week prior
2. Day of Lift - JHA/Preshift meeting
6 881 (d) Add Communications - primary, secondary means
7 884 (h) Add equipment, componet delivery to site
Add offloading of crane, derrick components
Add type of blocking used to crib crane, derrick components
8 885 (7) Must be in Lift Plan and Rigged
9 886 (9) Onsite Handling
Offloading
Building
Rigging
10 896 1407 (C) Add Air Horn
11 916 1412(1) Add (iii) "Documentation of both (i) and (ii) is required"
12 917 (2) Add (iv) "Documentation of (i), (ii), (iii) required"
13 918 (c)(1) Add (1a) Documentation required
14 919 (d)(1) Delete 'or during'
15 921 (e) Add monthly inspection from manufacturer
16 922 (ii) Delete ' three months', replace with 'duration of the project or three
months, whichever is longer.'
17 926 (iii) Edit retained 12 months for the life of the equipment in an
equipment file that travels with the specific crane
18 927 (j) Delete last sentence
19 947 (e) Add the use of boom mounted video cameras for blind picks
20 966 1423(e) Change 15 feet to 6 feet
21 972 1425 (3) Add with crew training plus a qualified person supervising the
work.
22 996 1431(a) Add 'demonstrated and documents within the project specific lift
plan'
23 996 1431(1a) Weather impacts on lifting equipment?
24 1012 1431(i) How to measure wind speed? On crane boom? On lift platform?
How?
25 1012 1431(9)
26 1036 1435 (b) Tower crane site specific safety plan to include
Erection, Climbing, Operation, Dismantling - approved by PE
27 1037 1435(3) Add supports horizontal ties, attachments to structural frame
review by PE
28 1037 1435 (i) Add verify? document and sign off requirements
29 1037 1435 (iii) Wind speed measured by 2 independent methods - at working
elevation and at boom tip
30 1038 1435 (5) Plumb 1:40?! Review AISC Steel Plumbing/Erection location
reviewed by PE?
31 1038 1435 Add pre shift inspection
Preshift JHA safety meeting with all workers on crane eleveated and ground, I-W,
secondary cranes, trucking, electrical, operators
32 1038 1435 (ii) Add Review of all brace conections, spacing by PE to crane, to
structure
33 1038 1435 Measure wind speed at what elevation? How?
34 1041 1435(3) Add communications backup required - primary and secondary
35 1059 1436(i) For all anchorages, design inspection by registered professionsl
engineer
36 1061 1436 (D) Simulate test/trial lifts in similar working cycle durations for
actual field work cycles lift, swing, hold, spot, lower
37 1063 1436(n) Add site specific jumping plan approved by registered PE
38 1077 1437 (5) Add design by registered PE
39 1096 1441(1a) Add sentence - Personnel hoisting into drilled shafts only if the
use of a video camera is both impractical and non feasible
40 1101 Addd Riggers - discussion of training
Add Signalpersons - discussion of training
William R. Nash , P.E.
MC-Industrial , Inc., (An Independent McCarthy Company)
3117 Big Bend Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63143
314-646-4133 Phone
314-646-4101 Fax
314-517.1768 Cell
bill.nash@mc-industrial.com
www.mc-industrial.com
Comment from Nash, William, MC Industrial
This is comment on Proposed Rule
Cranes and Derricks in Construction; Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Extension of Written Comment Period
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