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Document ID (ISN)27351
CIS number 77-905
ISBN(s) 3-18-402034-7
Year 1976
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Hannover H.O., Mechtold F., Tasche G.
Title Safety of cranes - Annotations to accident prevention regulations (VBG 9)
Original title Sicherheit bei Kranen - Erläuterungen zur Unfallverhütungsvorschrift (VBG 9) [in German]
Bibliographic information VDI-Verlag GmbH, Graf-Recke-Strasse 84, 4000 Düsseldorf 1, Germany (Fed.Rep.), 1977. 223p. Illus. Price: DM.48.00.
Abstract Profusely illustrated, exhaustive commentary on these safety regulations, which were issued in the Fed.Rep. of Germany in Dec. 1974 by the Mutual Accident Insurance Associations (Berufsgenossenschaften). The introduction retraces the history of the regulations and refers to the problems of their application to various types of crane. Some explanations on the scope of the regulations, the type of equipment covered and other technical standards or regulations applicable, are followed by sections on: construction and equipment (indication of load, control post, access, platforms and walkways, safe distances, prevention of derailing, overturning and falls, brakes, travel limiting devices, load limiters, rails, warning devices, assembly instructions, etc.); tests before putting into operation, tests following major modifications, and periodic tests; operation (qualifications and responsibilities of cranedriver, coordination of several cranes, maintenance, entry, transport of personnel, operations which are forbidden or permitted in special circumstances, assembly and dismantling of mobile cranes, repairs and modifications); special provisions; various technical rules.
Descriptors (primary) cranes; Germany (Federal Republic of)
Descriptors (secondary) protection against falling objects; safety by design; travel limiting devices; overhead walkways and platforms; access to workplaces; stability; brakes; maintenance; overhead travelling cranes; control elements; safe distances; safe working methods; qualifications; equipment testing; history; comment on directive; load limiting devices
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Materials handling and storage
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Cranes