Inspection and Certification Procedure and Types
Lifting machines, depending on their risk, are classified into three categories, high, medium and low, and are subject to periodic type A inspection and type B re-inspection in accordance with current legislation and concerns the types of machinery:
1. Cranes operating close to the sea, such as shipyard cranes and port service cranes;
2. Cranes operating in steelworks, foundries or other facilities where dangerous materials are handled such as flammable, explosive, toxic, corrosive with a lifting capacity equal to or more than two tons,
3. Crane bridges,
4. Construction tower cranes,
5. Vehicle lifts
6. Wall-mounted or mast-mounted cranes with a lifting capacity of two (2) tons or more.
7. Lifting machines for which there is a risk of the operator or another worker falling on it from a vertical height of more than three meters,
8. Construction machinery that is cranes, basket trucks, crane-excavators,
9. Cranes operating in steelworks, foundries or other facilities where hazardous materials are processed, with a lifting capacity of less than two (2) tons,
10. Non-self-propelled elevators
11. Hydraulic mechanisms with scissor platforms with a capacity of more than 200kg
12. Vehicle recovery cranes
13. Elevators for lifting cargo - sick passengers - aircraft
14. Work platforms
15. Manual lifting machines over 100kg
