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Document ID (ISN)25180
CIS number 76-908
Year 1975
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Dickie D.E.
Title Crane handbook.
Bibliographic information Construction Safety Association of Ontario, 74 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5C 2A5, Canada, 1st edition, Oct. 1975. 304p. Illus. Price: Can-$18.95.
Abstract This handbook identifies the fundamentals of crane safety and recommends minimum safety requirements, guidelines and procedures. It is intended to become a working and training guide and deals with machine selection and equipment requirements, inspection, testing and maintenance, assembly, dismantling and transport, operating procedures and precautions relating to cranes used most commonly in construction - mobile and tower cranes. The text is accompanied by a wealth of instructive drawings. This handbook is intended for use with the rigging manual of the Construction Safety Association of Ontario.
Descriptors (primary) mobile cranes; construction industry; tower cranes
Descriptors (secondary) safety engineering; lifting of loads; Canada; Ontario; safety by design; manuals; safe working methods; equipment testing; safety checks; maintenance and repair
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Materials handling and storage
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Cranes
Construction industry and civil engineering