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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators Service Providers GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURE FOR LIFTING EQUIPMENT AND LIFTING OPERATIONS
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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators and Service Providers GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURE FOR LIFTING EQUIPMENT AND LIFTING OPERATIONS Code: DPR Guide 0024 - 2020 Revision Date: 1st August 2020 This is a property of the Department of Petroleum Resources. All rights reserved 15 handler and a crane (fixed or mobile). When fitted with a suitably designed carrier or working platform, these can provide a safer alternative to other means of access (such as a ladder). However, such an arrangement will not provide the same level of safety as purpose- built equipment such as a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP). 3.8 Marking of Lifting Equipment 1. Machinery and accessories for lifting loads are clearly marked to indicate their safe working loads. 2. Where the safe working load of machinery for lifting loads depends on its configuration then the machinery is clearly marked to indicate its safe working load for each configuration; or 3. Information, which clearly indicates its safe working load for each configuration, is kept with the machinery. 4. Accessories for lifting are also marked in such a way that it is possible to identify the characteristics necessary for their safe use. 5. Lifting equipment, which is designed for lifting persons, is appropriately and clearly marked to this effect. 3.9 Colour Coding It is mandatory to ensure all portable, circulating and fixed lifting equipment are colour coded to give visual indication of its certification status. The following colour code cycle must be used to indicate the current lifting accessories in use, such as: Chains and Wire Ropes, Webbing Slings, Hooks, Shackles, Eye Bolts, Swivels, Blocks, Snatch Blocks, Beam Clamps and Plate Clamps, Lifting Beams / Spreader Beams etc.
CodesPDF20202020-0815