§327 パート4の適用範囲

Part 4 of Annex I sets out essential health and safety requirements for machinery presenting hazards due to lifting operations. The hazardous situations associated with lifting operations include, in particular, the fall or uncontrolled movement of the load, collisions with the machinery, the carrier or the load and the collapse or overturning of the lifting machinery.

The requirements set out in Part 4 of Annex I apply to all lifting operations as defined in section 4.1.1 (a), whether the lifting operation is the main function of the machinery, a secondary function of the machinery or a function of part of the machinery. In Part 4, the term ‘lifting machinery’ must therefore be understood as referring to all machinery presenting hazards due to lifting operations.

The requirements set out in Part 4 may be applicable to machinery in the strict sense, to interchangeable equipment intended for lifting operations, to safety components fitted to ensure the safety of lifting operations, to lifting accessories, to chains, ropes and webbing for lifting. Where requirements set out in Part 4 require tests to be carried out in order to check stability and strength, interchangeable equipment for lifting must be tested in the conditions under which it is intended to be used. It may therefore be necessary, for example, to carry out such tests on the interchangeable equipment assembled with a representative item of the basic machinery with which it is intended to be used – see § 41: comments on Article 2 (b).

In the following comments the scope of the different requirements is specified where necessary. It should be noted that any of the requirements set out Part 4 should be applied to partly completed machinery involving lifting operations.