CONTENTS Introduction Foreword to the eighth edition ‘Acknowledgements Section 1 = General Requirements Section 2 - Electric Overhead Travelling Cranes Section 3 - Hand Operated Chain Blocks Section 4 - Hand Operated Chain Lever Hoists Section 5 - Lifting and Pulling Machines - using @ gripping action on the wire rope Section 6 - Power Operated Hoists Section 7 - Winches Used for Lifting Purposes Section 8 - Travelling Girder Trolleys Section 9 - Beam Ciamps Section 10 - Slewing Jib Cranes Section 11 - Runways Section 12 - Mobile Gantries Section 13 - Jacks Section 14 - Chain Slings Section 15 - Wire Rope Slings Section 16 - Flat Woven Webbing Slings Section 17 - Man-Made Fibre Roundslings Section 18 - Fibre Rope Slings Section 19 - Shackles Section 20 - Eyebolts Section 21 - _ Lifting Beams, Spreaders and Frames Section 22 - Plate Handling Clamps Section 23 - Rigging Screws and Turnbuckles Section 24 - Barrel Lifters Section 25 - Crane Forks Section 26 - Magnetic Lifters Section 27 - Vacuum Lifters Index to all sections ‘t Edition May 1981 ‘st Edition (revised) September 1981 2nd Edition May 1983 3rd Edition August 1991 4th Edition October 1994 Sth Edition April 2001 6th Edition May 2006 7th Edition - As 6th edition with addition of sections 22-26 inclusive May 2009 8th Ecition April 2014 Ezition 8 ~ April 2014