High Risk Work Licence - Vehicle Loading Crane (CV) case studies
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The Vehicle Loading Crane (CV) licence is a high risk work licence class administered in New South Wales by SafeWork NSW, the state work health and safety regulator. It sits alongside other high risk work licence classes within the SafeWork NSW licences and registrations framework, and is intended for people who operate a vehicle loading crane as part of their work - for example loading and unloading a truck, moving materials on a site, or working in transport, warehousing, construction and related industries. The High Risk Work Licence - Vehicle Loading Crane (CV) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,199 words.
1Siting the truck beside a trench on soft fill
You arrive at a residential site to unload roof trusses with a 12 tonne-metre vehicle loading crane mounted on a 4-axle rigid truck. The only access is a strip of recently placed fill, and the spot the builder has marked for you is 2.5 m from the edge of a 1.8 m deep footing trench.
657 words, about 3 min2Re-checking capacity when the load has to go further out
You are loading a 2 100 kg steel beam onto a truck tray using a vehicle loading crane rated at 10 tonne-metres. The truck is set up on a level concrete hardstand with all outriggers fully extended.
692 words, about 3 min3Unexpected movement while slewing a suspended load
You are lifting a 900 kg pallet of bricks from a truck tray to a second-storey scaffold platform using a vehicle loading crane with outriggers extended on a grass verge beside a sealed driveway. The chart allows 1 500 kg at the 6 m radius you are working at, so you have margin.
578 words, about 3 min4Pre-start inspection findings on a crane that was 'fine yesterday'
It is 06:30 and you are the first on site. You are to unload timber from a truck using a vehicle loading crane that another operator used the previous afternoon.
659 words, about 3 min5Shutdown after a shift in a shared yard
You finish a day of unloading at 17:15 on a site where the crane will not be used again until the following week. During the day you noticed the boom creeps down slowly when parked with the boom raised, and the parking brake warning light flickered twice on a slope.
613 words, about 3 min