Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) (Amendment) Regulations, 1958
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1958/1553 |
| Year | 1958 |
1958 No. 1553
HEALTH, WELFARE AND SAFETY (SPECIAL PROVISIONS)
The Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) (Amendment) Regulations, 195817thSeptember 1958
22ndSeptember 1958
1stJanuary 1959
The Minister of Labour and National Service by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 60 of the Factories Act, 1937(a), and of all other powers in that behalf, hereby makes the following Special Regulations:—
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) (Amendment) Regulations, 1958, and shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1959.
(2) In these Regulations the expression "the principal Regulations" means the Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948(b), as amended by the Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Amendment Regulations, 1952(c).
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889(d), shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. In the definition of the expression "Safe working load" in paragraph (2) of Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations, the reference to Regulation 57 shall be deleted.
3. The following paragraph shall be inserted at the end of Regulation 35 of the principal Regulations:—
"(5) In the case of a crane which is on occasion dismantled or partially dismantled, any structural member which is separated from the crane in dismantling shall be clearly marked so as to indicate the crane of which it is a part".
4. The following Regulations shall be substituted for Regulations 43 to 47 of the principal Regulations:—
"Stability of lifting appliances
"43.—(1) No lifting appliance shall be used on a soft or uneven surface in circumstances in which the stability of the appliance is likely to be affected, or on a slope, unless appropriate precautions are taken to ensure safety.
(2) No crane shall be used for raising or lowering unless, so as to ensure stability, it is either—
(a) securely anchored; or
(b) adequately weighted by suitable ballast which shall be properly placed on the crane structure and sufficiently secured to prevent its being accidently displaced.
(a) 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 67.
(b) S.I. 1948/1145 (Rev. VII, p. 191: 1948 I, p. 953).
(c) S.I. 1952/1584 (1952 I, p. 985).
(d) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
No part of any rails on which a crane is mounted or the sleepers supporting such rails shall be used as anchorage for this purpose.
(3) The whole of the appliances for the anchorage or ballasting of a crane shall be examined by a competent person on each occasion before the crane is erected.
(4) After each erection of a crane on a building site and after each removal of a crane about or to a building site, or any adjustment to any member of a crane, being a removal or adjustment which involves changes in the arrangements for anchoring or ballasting the crane, the security of the anchorage or the adequacy of the ballasting, as the case may be, shall, before the crane is taken into use, be tested by a competent person, by the imposition either—
(a) of a load of 25 per cent. above the maximum load to be lifted by the crane as erected at the positions where there is the maximum pull on each anchorage, or
(b) of a less load arranged to provide an equivalent test of the anchorage or ballasting arrangements.
The prescribed particulars of such tests and their results shall forthwith be entered in or attached to the prescribed register.
(5) If the person making tests under paragraph (4) of this Regulation considers that the maximum load which may safely be...
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