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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  
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5 
APPENDICES 
5.1 
 Lifting Equipment: Frequencies for Testing / Inspection & Certification   
   
Lifting Equipment Type   
Frequency For  
Proof Load Test   
Inspection (SWL)   
1. 
 All Lifting Accessories:   
• 
Chains, slings and wire 
ropes slings  
• 
Rings, links, hooks, 
shackles, eyebolts, 
swivels, blocks, snatch 
blocks   
• 
Beam and plate clamps, 
frames, pallets, lifting 
beams and cargo nets.   
• 
On initial supply   
• 
After substantial alteration or Major repair   
• 
At discretion of surveyor   
Every six (6) months 
2   
Lifting Equipment:   
• 
Pedestal cranes, mobile 
cranes, forklifts, tower 
cranes  
• 
Overhead traveling 
cranes, wall / pillar 
cranes, derricks  
• 
Winches, hoist (air and 
electric), crabs, Telfer 
hoist, powered working 
Platforms, vehicle lifts 
or hoists etc.   
• 
Mobile or movable jacks 
and associated “Lifting 
Equipment”   
• 
Lifting Persons & 
Suspended Baskets *   
• 
On initial supply  
• 
Every four (4) years   
• 
After reinstallation, substantial alteration or major 
repair   
• 
At discretion of surveyor   
Every twelve (12) 
months   
   
   
   
    
   
    
Every Six (6) 
Months*   
3   
Runaway beams, pad eyes, 
gin pole and gin wheels.   
  
• On initial supply   
• After reinstallation, substantial alteration or major 
repair   
• At discretion of surveyor   
Every twelve (12) 
months   
  
Every six (6) months 
4   
Chain Blocks, tirfors, pull lifts, 
trolleys   
  
• On initial supply   
• Every four (4) years   
• After substantial alteration or major repair   
• At discretion of surveyor   
Every six (6) months