scope:

This Standard applies to the construction, installation, operation, inspection, and maintenance of jacks; power-operated cranes, monorails, and crane runways; power-operated and manually operated derricks and hoists; lifting hooks and slings; and cableways.

This Standard does not apply to track and automotive jacks, railway or automobile wrecking cranes, shipboard cranes, shipboard cargo-handling equipment, well-drilling derricks, skip hoists, mine hoists, truck body hoists, car or barge pullers, lever-operated pulling devices, conveyors, excavating equipment, or equipment coming within the scope of the following Committees - A 10, A 17, A90, A92, A 120, B20, B56, and B77.

Purpose

This Standard is designed (1) to guard against and minimize injury to workers, and otherwise provide for the protection of life, limb, and property by prescribing safety requirements; (2) to provide direction to owners, employers, supervisors, and others concerned with, or responsible for, its application; and (3) to guide governments and other regulatory bodies in the development, promulgation, and enforcement of appropriate safety directives