Mobile Cranes (MC)

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The sub-group Mobile Cranes includes lorry loader cranes and mobile cranes mounted on crawlers or rubber-tired carriers.

 

Activities

Regulatory activities
The current work items include:

  • Machinery Directive 20016/42/EC
  • Exhaust Emissions from NRMM Directive 97/68/EC
  • Outdoor Noise Directive 2000/14/EC
  • Road regulations
  • Temporary work at height Directive 2001/45/EC
  • Vibration Directive 2002/44/EC

Technical work
CEN/TC 147 WG P 11 and ISO/TC 96 SC 6 standards

Technical documents

See section Publications – Technical Guidance, subsection Mobile Cranes

Guidance and information notes

ICSA Guidance Documents

ICSA 001 Leaving mobile cranes unattended 2022
ICSA 002 Lifting a load with several mobile cranes 2022
ICSA 003 Lifting of persons with mobile cranes 2022
ICSA 004 Mobile Crane Ground Preparation for Wind Farm Construction  2022
ICSA 005 Working with Land-based Mobile Cranes on Floating Vessels 2022
ICSA 006 Mobile Cranes Suspended Vibratory Eqp. for Pile Driving/Extraction 2022

Position papers & press releases

Position papers

  • N1318 – Avoiding Contact to energized Power Lines (2022): EN
  • N0654 – External Warning Signals (2014): EN
  • N0442 – Lifting Persons with Mobile Cranes (2012): EN
  • N0513 – Indication of stability limits in capacity charts of mobile cranes (2012): EN
  • N0485 – CE marking and engine emissions (2013): EN
  • N0308 – Overload testing of mobile cranes (2011): EN
  • N0284 – Lifting Persons with Mobile Cranes (2011): EN; FR; DE
  • N0241 – Putting mobile cranes on the market (2010): EN
  • N0521 – Diesel Emissions – Retrofit of Particulate Filters (2013): EN

Press releases

  • N0795 – Guidance paper for safe use of fibre ropes in mobile crane applications (2016): EN
  • N0731 – EN 13000:2010+A1:2014: Cranes- Mobile Cranes to be published in the EU Official Journal (2015): EN
  • N0732 – Revision of Directive 97/68/EC – impact study on mobile cranes (2015): EN
  • N0616 – Guideline – External Warning signals of the Rated Capacity Limiter, speed reductions and Event Recorder for mobile cranes (2013): EN
  • N0617 – Guideline – Event Recorder – Specifications – Mobile Cranes according to EN13000 (2013): EN
  • N0219 – Influence of wind forces during crane operation (2010): EN
  • N0211 – EN 13000 Cranes – Mobile Cranes: Standard to be published (2010): EN