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64. Operation of lifting appliances.- The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that- (a) every crane driver or lifting operator posses adequate skill and training in the operation of the particular lifting appliance; (b) no person under eighteen years of age is in control of any lifting machine, scaffold winch, or to give signals to the operator; (c) precaution is taken by the trained operator to prevent lifting appliance from being set in motion; (d) the operation of lifting appliances is governed by signals, in conformity with the relevant national standards. (e) the lifting appliance operator's attention is not distracted while he is working; (f) no crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance or any part of such crane, hoist, winch or other lifting appliance is, except for testing purposes, loaded beyond the safe working load; (g) during the hoisting operations effective precaution is taken to prevent any person from standing or passing under the load in such operations; (h) operator does not leave lifting appliance unattended while power is on or load is suspended to such appliance; (i) no person rides on a suspended load or on any lifting appliance; (j) every part of a load in course of being hoisted or lowered is adequately suspended and supported to prevent danger; (k) every receptacle used for hoisting bricks, tiles, slates or other material is suitably enclosed as to prevent the fall of any such materials; (l) the hoisting platform is enclosed when loose materials or loaded wheel-barrows are placed directly on such platform or lowering, such materials or wheel-barrows; (m) no material is raised, lowered or slowed with any lifting appliance in such a way as to cause sudden jerks to such appliance; (n) in hoisting a barrow, any wheel of such barrow is not used as a means of support unless adequate steps are taken to prevent the axle of such wheel from slipping out of its bearings; (o) long objects like planks or girders are provided with a tag line to prevent any possibility of danger while raising or lowering such objects; (p) during the process of landing of material, a building worker is not permitted to lean out into empty space for finding out the loading and unloading of such material; (q) when hoisting of load is done in an enclosed space, neither the lifting material nor the boom should project outside the enclosed space; (r) adequate steps are taken to prevent a load, in the course of being hoisted or lowered from coming into contact with any object to avoid any displacement of such load; (s) appliances are provided and used for guiding heavy loads when raising or lowering heavy loads to avoid crushing of hands of building workers during such raising or lowering of loads; | |||||
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