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Lifting Engineer's Handbook
Publication Date: 7th May 2007
Members' Price: £8.00 (UK) for multiple copies and delivery charges to other areas please
contact us.
Non-Members' Price: £10.00(UK) for multiple copies and delivery charges to other areas please
contact us.

Aimed at the personnel who test examine and verify lifting equipment, it is intended to provide
them with a ready source of information about the LEEA technical requirements for members
and the processes, procedures and standards involved. It is based on good practice which can
be applied anywhere in the world.

Contents

LEEA Technical Requirements


The modern approach to verifying lifting equipment
Basic procedures for thorough examination
Non-destructive test
Proof loads/forces
Method statements and risk assessment
Work at height
Planning a lifting operation
Recommended crane signals
Standards
Electric overhead travelling cranes
Crane gantries
Slewing jib cranes
Runways
Sheave blocks
Chain
Wire rope
Natural and man made fibres
Forged components
Slings – Working load limits
Shackles – Working load limits and dimensions
Eyebolts – Working load limits and dimensions
Data and formula for the lifting engineer
Lifting Equipment and UK legislation
Documentation and marking required by UK legislation
Guidance on written schemes of examination for lifting equipment
Status of test certificates
Status of CEN harmonised standards
UK work at height regulations

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