BS 2799:1974

Applies to tower cranes as used on building sites and in works of engineering construction where the crane is dismantled when it has served its purpose. Both horizontal jib and luffing jib cranes are covered and these may be of the travelling, fixed or climbing type.Cross References:BS 302BS 327BS 350BS 357BS 436BS 466BS 545BS 587BS 649BS 721BS765BS 775BS 800BS 833 BS 1486:Part 1BS 1486:Part 2BS 1757BS 1761BS 2059BS 2452BS 2521 & 2523BS 2525-27BS 2573:Part 1BS 2573:Part 2BS 2613BS 2771BS 2903BS 3032BS 3037:Part 1BS 3139BS 3294BS 3535BS 3550BS 3551BS 3579BS 4235BS 4395 BS 4533:Part 2:Section 2.3BS 4604BS 6007 BS 6116BS 6500CP 1013CP 1017CP 3010Construction (Lifting Operations) Regulations 1961 Construction (Lifting Operations) Reports Order 1962Construction (Lifting Operations) Prescribed Particulars Order 1962Construction (Lifting Operations) Certificates Order 1961Construction (General Provisions) Regulations 1961 S.I. 1966/94Construction (Working Places) Regulations 1966Electricity Regulations 1908Electricity (Factories Act) Special Regulations 1944Factories Act, 1961Chains, Ropes and Lifting Tackle (Register) Order 1938Lifting Machines (Particulars of Examinations) Order 1963Docks Regulations 1934Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960Shipbuilding (Reports on Chains and Lifting Gear) Order 1961Shipbuilding (Reports on Ropes and Rope Slings) Order 1961Shipbuilding (Particulars of Annealing) Order 1961Shipbuilding (Lifting Appliances etc. Forms) Order 1961S.I. 1964/530Shipbuilding (Reports on Lifting Appliances) Order 1961Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966 Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1966Agricultural (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act, 1956Agricultural (Stationary Machinery) Regulations 1959Agricultural (Field Machinery) Regulations 1962Mines and Quarries Act, 1954Coal and Other Mines (Electricity) Regulations 1956Miscellaneous Mines (Electricity) Regulations 1956Quarries (Electricity) Regulations 1956Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949