ASME B30.5-2011 Edition, “Mobile and Locomotive Cranes,” has just been released and is available from Document Center Inc. now. The standard addresses crawler cranes, locomotive cranes, wheel-mounted cranes, and any fundamentally similar cranes that are powered by internal combustion engines or electric motors. It is intended for use by manufacturers, owners, employers, users and others concerned with the specification, buying, maintenance, training and safe use of mobile and locomotive cranes with B30 equipment, plus all potential governing entities.
ASME B30.5 offers comprehensive solutions applying to the construction, inspection, testing, maintenance and operation of mobile and locomotive cranes. It is to be used in conjunction with equipment described in other volumes of the ASME B30 series of safety standards.
This 64-page edition incorporates revisions to requirements for operating near electrical power lines, defines critical lift, and offers a non-mandatory guidance document on identification and planning for critical lifts. Additional updates have been made throughout to reflect current industry best-practices.
Side boom tractors and cranes designed for railway and automobile wreck clearance, digger derricks, cranes manufactured for or used for energized electrical line service, knuckle boom, trolley boom cranes, and cranes having a maximum rated capacity of one ton or less are excluded from ASME B30.5.
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