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All lifting operations must be planned and supervised by competent personnel, and all lifting equipment selected is to be fit for purpose.
Note: If you undertake or manage lifting operations on our site, a McLaughlin & Harvey Lifting Plan Profroma must be completed in full by an appropriately experienced and qualified ‘appointed person’ for all lifts involving mobile cranes, tower cranes, complex lifts or when equipment is used to lift persons other than by MEWP.
McLaughlin & Harvey will not provide an ‘appointed person’ on behalf of any contractor. Where these requirements cannot be met from your own labour a contract lift must be arranged.
Lifting equipment and all accessories must be accompanied by current certificates of test / thorough examination. These must be made available for inspection by McLaughlin & Harvey prior to use.
The ground bearing capacity should be calculated / engineered. Working platforms shall be considered as temporary works and subject to temporary works design and checks accordingly.