GOSPROMNADZOR informs

Question:

The organization plans to purchase overhead cranes of various lifting capacities. We ask you to clarify which manufacturers' overhead cranes we can purchase for operation in the Republic of Belarus.

Answer:

In accordance with paragraph 7 of the Rules for Ensuring Industrial Safety of Lifting Cranes, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus dated December 22, 2018 No. 66 (hereinafter - the Rules), lifting cranes must meet the requirements of industrial safety, including the Rules, technical regulations of the Customs Union, technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter - TR CU, TR EAEU).

The lifting cranes you plan to purchase are subject to conformity assessment in the form of certification for compliance with the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On the Safety of Machinery and Equipment,” adopted by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission
dated October 18, 2011 No. 823 (hereinafter - TR CU 010/2011).

Information about the certificates of conformity of lifting cranes to the requirements of TR CU, TR EAEU and their manufacturers is available in the Unified Register of Issued Certificates of Conformity and Registered Declarations of Conformity of the Eurasian Economic Union. The information in the specified register is open and publicly accessible.

Additionally, we inform you that there are the following manufacturers of overhead lifting cranes in the Republic of Belarus:

OAO “Crane Plant” in Slučsk;

PUP “Amkodor-DOMZ” in Dzyarzhynsk;

LLC “TUSON” in Vitebsk.

Question:

Our organization (Russian Federation) has purchased
a crane-manipulator on the chassis of a KAMAZ truck, with a lifting capacity of 8 tons and a lifting moment of 19t/m, and is performing construction and installation work on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

There is an employee in the staff who has completed training in the course “Crane Manipulator Operator.” Is such training sufficient
for operating the crane-manipulator? What profession should our employee have to operate the aforementioned lifting crane in the Republic of Belarus?

Answer:

Crane-manipulators with a lifting capacity of more than 5 tons or
with a lifting moment of more than 15 ton-meters (hereinafter - lifting cranes) according to subparagraph 5.1 of paragraph 5 of Appendix No. 2 to the Law of the Republic of Belarus dated January 5, 2016 No. 354-Z “On Industrial Safety” are classified as potentially hazardous objects and are subject to registration with the State Industrial Supervision in accordance with the Regulation on the Registration of Potentially Hazardous Objects, approved by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
dated August 5, 2016 No. 613 (hereinafter - the Registration Regulation).

When operating the crane-manipulator with a lifting capacity of 8 tons and a lifting moment of 19 ton-meters mentioned in the letter in the Republic of Belarus, the requirements of the Rules
for Ensuring Industrial Safety of Lifting Cranes, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus dated December 22, 2018 No. 66
(hereinafter - the Rules) must be followed.

According to paragraph 348 of the Rules, the operation of a wheeled lifting crane, a wheeled crane-manipulator, as well as a lifting crane mounted on another chassis, must be entrusted to a driver of the vehicle who has a driver's license for the right to operate the corresponding vehicle, and after obtaining the profession of a crane operator (crane operator).

At the same time, we inform you that in accordance with the Regulation on Registration, when foreign contractors use their owned lifting cranes, temporarily imported
for the construction of facilities, registration with the State Industrial Supervision is not required provided that they are operated
and maintained without the participation of contracting organizations - residents of the Republic of Belarus.

Question:

In the organization, when performing transport and warehouse operations and loading packages of pipes and rolled metal into hopper cars, disposable load-bearing slings are used with lifting cranes. The manufacture and use of disposable slings are regulated by the technical conditions TU BY 400074854.040-2008 “DISPOSABLE LOAD-BEARING SLINGS.”

When using a single-strand rope or chain sling with a gripping device in the form of a hook with a lock for hooking packages of pipes and rolled metal, the slinger needs to descend into the hopper car or climb into the truck bed to unhook the load when loading.

In order to eliminate the impact of hazardous production factors on the slinger when unhooking packages of pipes and rolled metal during loading into hopper cars, it is proposed to use a single-strand rope or chain sling with a gripping device in the form of a hook with an enlarged throat and an eye without a safety lock. The specified sling allows for quick unhooking of loads without the participation of the slinger. For this, it is necessary to place the load on the floor surface of the hopper car and reduce the tension of the sling branch. The slings are manufactured in accordance with the technical conditions, have passed the conformity confirmation procedure to the technical regulation of the Customs Union and have a declaration of conformity to the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On the Safety of Machinery and Equipment” (TR CU 010/2011).

Based on the above, we ask you to clarify: which technical regulatory legal acts regulate the use of slings with a gripping device in the form of a hook with an enlarged throat and an eye without a safety lock, and whether the use of these slings for hooking packages of pipes and rolled metal is allowed.

Answer:

According to paragraph 7 of the Rules for Ensuring Industrial Safety of Lifting Cranes, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus
dated December 22, 2018 No. 66, lifting devices must meet the requirements of industrial safety, including the specified rules, technical regulations of the Customs Union, technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union, which apply to them.

Lifting devices are objects of technical regulation, to which the requirements of the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On the Safety of Machinery and Equipment” (hereinafter - TR CU 010/2011) apply.

Standards related to TR CU 010/2011 establish requirements for hooks of lifting devices:

paragraph 4.3. GOST 25573-82 “Cargo Rope Slings
for Construction. Technical Conditions” - hooks of slings must be equipped with safety locks;

paragraph 6.14 GOST 34016-2016 “Lifting Cranes. Lifting Devices. Safety Requirements” - hooks of lifting devices, except for special ones, must be equipped with a latch (safety lock) that prevents the accidental falling out of the hook from the lifting element of the load or the falling out of the lifting device or sling from the throat of the crane hook during lifting and moving the load.

Considering the above, the State Industrial Supervision believes that slings with hooks without safety locks for moving packages of pipes and rolled metal do not meet the requirements of industrial safety and their use is unacceptable.

Question:

In accordance with the requirements of the rules for ensuring industrial safety of elevators, construction cargo-passenger lifts, escalators, passenger conveyors, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus dated December 30, 2020 No. 56, the owner of a potentially hazardous object (hereinafter - PHO) appoints a person responsible for its safe operation.

We ask for clarification on whether the person responsible for the safe operation of the PHO must be on the staff of the owner.

Answer:

In accordance with Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus
dated January 5, 2016 No. 354-Z “On Industrial Safety,” workers of the industrial safety entity – are individuals working under employment contracts that provide for work in the field of industrial safety, as well as those working under civil law contracts, the subject of which is the performance of work (provision of services) in the field of industrial safety.

The functions of the person responsible for the safe operation of the elevator are additional functions that can be assigned by the industrial safety entity to an employee holding a position of an official according to the staff schedule, with whom an employment contract has been concluded, or to an individual who is not in labor relations with the industrial safety entity (in the absence of a staff unit), by concluding a civil law contract in accordance with civil legislation.

Question:

In accordance with paragraph 185 of the Rules for Ensuring Industrial Safety of Elevators, Construction Cargo-Passenger Lifts, Escalators, Passenger Conveyors, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus dated December 30, 2020 No. 56, during the operation of the PHO, technical devices to ensure their operability and the requirements set out in operational documents, timely regulation of mechanisms and elimination of malfunctions before repairs, the service personnel appointed by the owner, specialized organization conducts current maintenance between repairs.

Based on the above, we ask for clarification on whether it is permissible to carry out technical maintenance of elevator equipment without disconnecting (suspending the operation of) the elevator.

Answer:

In accordance with paragraphs 183, 191 of the Rules for Ensuring Industrial Safety of Elevators, Construction Cargo-Passenger Lifts, Escalators, Passenger Conveyors, approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
of the Republic of Belarus dated December 30, 2020 No. 56, to control the timing of maintenance, as well as to prevent progressively increasing wear of the elevator, the specialized organization develops a system of planned preventive inspections and repairs
(hereinafter - the system of PPIR).

In order to ensure the safety of elevator users, maintenance of elevator equipment must be carried out
with the suspension of its operation (the elevator must be inaccessible to users) while complying with safety requirements and work regulations reflected in the documents of the PPIR system.

In case of servicing electrical components, replacing mechanisms, the elevator and its components that are to be serviced must be disconnected from the power supply.