Lifting Operations
The equipment used for carrying out lifting operations, including lifting people, is varied and includes
- cranes
- vacuum lifting cranes
- hoists
- scissor lifts
- fork lift trucks
- passenger lifts
- mobile elevated work platforms
- vehicle tail lifts
- bath hoists
- dumb waiters
- pallet trucks, and
- the lifting equipment used to connect a load to a lifting machine or appliance e.g. shackles, slings, hooks etc
The information in this toolkit will assist those who use this equipment and who plan lifting operations to do so safely.