Lifting Regulations
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA)
1. Is the national body in Ireland with overall responsibility for securing health and safety at all places of work.
2. We monitor compliance with health and safety legislation at the workplace and can take enforcement action (up to and including prosecutions).
3. Under Irish Occupational Health and Safety law, fishing vessels are classified as places of work.
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA)
1. Is the national body in Ireland with overall responsibility for securing health and safety at all places of work.
2. We monitor compliance with health and safety legislation at the workplace and can take enforcement action (up to and including prosecutions).
3. Under Irish Occupational Health and Safety law, fishing vessels are classified as places of work.
Duty of the owner of a fishing vessel in respect of examination of lifting equipment.
61. The owner of a fishing vessel shall comply with the duties set out in Regulations 52 and 54.
Examination and testing of lifting equipment.
52. (1) An employer shall ensure that, without prejudice to Regulation 30,
(a) fixed work equipment for lifting loads, including rail mounted work equipment for
lifting loads, is not taken into use for the first time unless—
(i) it has been tested and thoroughly examined by a competent person, and
(ii) a certificate of test and examination specifying the safe working load and, if
appropriate, the maximum numbers of persons permitted has been obtained,
(b) mobile work equipment for lifting loads is not taken into use in any place of work
for the first time unless—
(i) it has been examined and certified in accordance with this Regulation, or
(ii) it is a new machine and which—
(I) is CE marked in accordance with the relevant directives of the European
Communities,
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(II) is accompanied by an EC declaration of conformity in accordance with
the relevant directives of the European Communities,
(III) is accompanied by a certificate of test and examination for that machine
signed by the person making the test, specifying the safe working load,
and
(IV) has not been reassembled since dispatch from the manufacturer,
(c) where
(i) any alteration or repair is carried out to lifting equipment or a lifting
accessory, and
(ii) the alterations or repairs are relevant to the safe operation of the equipment,
the equipment is examined by a competent person in compliance with this
Regulation before the equipment’s return to service, and
(d) where a report of an examination pursuant to paragraph (3) specifies conditions for
the safe working of the equipment, the equipment is used only in accordance with
those conditions.
(2) In the case of work equipment to which paragraph (1)(b)(ii) applies, the period to the first
examination pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be determined by reference to the date of the
certificate referred to in paragraph (1)(b)(ii)(III).
(3) Without prejudice to Regulation 30, an employer shall ensure that work equipment of a
type or class listed in column 1 of Parts B or C of Schedule 1 is not used unless it has
been examined by a competent person at least once in the period specified in column 2 of
Parts B or C of that Schedule or as required under the other circumstances described in
Part C.
(4) Where equipment referred to in paragraph (3) has already been thoroughly examined in
accordance with the relevant statutory provisions in force prior to the introduction of
these Regulations, the beginning of the period referred to in paragraph (3) shall be
deemed to be the date of the last such examination.
(5) The requirements of this Regulation do not apply to the work equipment listed under Part
D of Schedule 1.
(6) Where a thorough examination has been carried out in compliance with the relevant
statutory provisions in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations,
the examination shall be regarded as being in compliance with this Chapter and this
Regulation does not apply until after the expiry of the period specified under those
statutory provisions.
(7) An employer shall ensure that a thorough examination is carried out as soon as
practicable if one is outstanding under the relevant statutory provisions from the period
before the commencement of these Regulations.
Keeping of records and registers of lifting equipment.
54. (1) An employer shall ensure that a report produced under Regulation 53, or a copy of it—
(a) is kept at the place of work when the lifting equipment is permanently located there,
(b) in the case of lifting equipment on a construction site, is kept at the site office or at
the business address of the contractor for whom the report was made, and
(c) in the case of mobile equipment, is kept on the equipment in addition to being
available for inspection at the address of the equipment owner.
(2) An employer shall ensure that—
(a) a register of lifting equipment and lifting accessories containing details of the
equipment, distinguishing number, date of first use and date of last thorough
examination and testing is maintained and kept available for inspection by an
inspector, and
(b) if the equipment does not have a distinguishing number or mark, one of long lasting
duration is provided
Superintendence
MarMan & Associates are a Marine Consultancy firm-providing Consultancy, Survey and Support services to the Marine Industry. We provide dedicated Superintendence oversight for vessel owners
Hull, Machinery and Equipment Maintenance including:
• Planned Maintenance Systems
• Asset management.
• Ship Refit and Dry-docking management and oversight.
• Preparation of maintenance specifications.
• Through life management.
Vessel dry-docking including:
• Vessel pre-inspections and dry-dock work scope identification.
• Hull Inspections and Repair
• Compilation of dry-docking specifications.
• Dry-docking work management and oversight.
• Preparation for Classification Society Inspections.
• Hull cleaning and coating oversight.
• Dry-docking Report.
Maintenance of Ships according to Classification Society (IACS) Rules, including:
• Preparations and pre-inspections for Special surveys, Intermediate Surveys and Annual Surveys.
• Administration of technical documentation.
Lifting Equipment Examination and Management including:
• Audits of ships lifting equipment.
• Periodic Examination of Lifting Equipment.
• Preparation and compilation of the ships Lifting Equipment Register, Register updating and management.
• Proof Load Testing and Certification.
• Documentation.
• Safety Advice.
New buildings and major Refits.
• Oversight of new vessel construction and ships Refits.
• Liaison with IACS surveyors.
• Harbour and Sea Acceptance Trials and recommendations.
