New Tower Cranes Regulations

The Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010

As expected, the new Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010 have been issued and will come into force in April this year. To see the Regulations, click here

These new regulations apply to an employer who provides for use, or whose employee uses, a conventional tower crane at work on a construction site. They also apply to self-employed persons, in respect of a conventional tower crane used at work, and a person who has control to any extent of the management, supervision and use of a conventional tower crane, subject to the extent of that control.

Employers are required to notify the HSE of the information relating to the conventional tower crane set in the Schedule to the regulations within 14 days of the completion of the thorough examination of the crane, before it is put into service, as required by the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.

Where no thorough examination of the conventional tower crane has been carried out within 14 days of its installation, the HSE must be notifoed of the details of the crane as soon as reasonably practicable and of any subsequent thorough examination under LOLER, within 14 days of that information becoming available.

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