Lifting Operations - Equipment Guidance

Choosing suitable equipment and ensuring it is maintained, tested and certified in an appropriate way are vital to help ensure safe operations.

Through a range of focused guidance documents relating to specific items of equipment, IMCA helps its members ensure they cover every aspect that needs to be considered when planning, specifying, purchasing, maintaining and operating lifting equipment.

Such guidance includes:

	Ref	Title	Date	Version	Info
			Members	Others	VAT?
IMCA Safety, Environment & Legislation Series
	IMCA SEL 022	Guidance on wire rope integrity management for vessels in the offshore industry	Oct 2008		Info
		Also available as IMCA M 194	£15.00	£30.00	0
	IMCA SEL 023	Guidance on non-destructive examination (NDE) by means of magnetic rope testing	Aug 2009		Info
		Also available as IMCA M 197	£15.00	£30.00	0
IMCA Diving Division Series
	IMCA D 016	Underwater air lift bags	Jun 2007	Rev.3	Info
			£2.50	£5.00	0
	IMCA D 028	Guidance on the use of chain lever hoists in the offshore subsea environment	Feb 2008	Rev. 1	Info
			£2.50	£5.00	0
IMCA Marine Division and DPVOA Series
	IMCA M 171	Crane specification document	Jul 2003		Info
			£10.00	£20.00	0
	IMCA M 179	Guidance on the use of cable laid slings and grommets	Aug 2005		Info
			£10.00	£20.00	0

And lifting aspects also addressed in a number of other documents where relevant, such as guidance on diving equipment and the ROV code of practice.