scope:

PURPOSE

To document Center-specific requirements for using different types of lifting devices and equipment (e.g., overhead cranes, derrick cranes, hoists, hooks, mobile equipment, Hydra-sets; special hoist-supported, personnel lifting devices; slings) in accordance with NPR 8715.3.

APPLICABILITY

a. This MPR applies to Center personnel, programs, projects, and activities, including contractors and resident agencies to the extent specified in their respective contracts or agreements. ("Contractors," for purposes of this paragraph, include contractors, grantees, Cooperative Agreement recipients, Space Act Agreement partners, or other agreement parties.)

b. This MPR applies to the Michoud Assembly Facility.

c. This MPR applies the following: all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms "may" or "can" denote discretionary privilege or permission, "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended, but not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are/is" denotes descriptive material.

d. This MPR applies the following: all document citations are assumed to be the latest version unless otherwise noted.

e. This MPR applies to the Facilities Management Office (FMO) for overhead and gantry cranes (including top running monorail, underhung, and jib cranes), derricks, and hoists, to the program/project/user organization for special hoist-supported, personnel-lifting devices, Hydrasets, load measuring devices, hooks, slings and rigging, and jacks (this MPR only applies to jacks used to lift flight hardware or critical lifts), and to the Logistics Services Office (LSO) for mobile aerial platforms, highlift industrial trucks (forklifts); and mobile cranes. It does not address elevators or front-end loaders.