Marine Orders - Part 32: Cargo Handling Equipment, Issue 2 (Order No. 14 of 1997)
16Register of materials handling equipment and certificates of test
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16 Register of materials handling equipment and certificates of test
16.1 Register requirements
16.1.1 The master of a ship must keep on the ship a register of those items of materials handling equipment that form part of the equipment of the ship.
16.1.2 The owner of each item of shore-based materials handling equipment must keep a register of such equipment at the place where it is normally stored.
16.1.3 Particulars of all tests, thorough examinations, inspections, heat treatment and any maintenance, repair or replacement of materials handling equipment to which this Part applies, must be recorded in the register of materials handling equipment by the responsible person or competent person supervising or carrying out the work.
16.1.4 A register of materials handling equipment may be kept in any convenient form, provided each entry is clearly legible and is authenticated by the responsible person.
Note: Suitable registers are available for this purpose from AMSA survey offices.
16.1.5 Unless the equipment is under survey and inspection pursuant to a scheme of classification and certification by a classification society, there must be on board evidence that a terminal connection fitted to a wire rope used for hoisting a load on a crane or derrick is of a design on which prototype tests have shown that the strength of the terminal and its attachment to the rope is not less than 95% of the breaking load of the rope for a rope up to and including 50mm in diameter or 90% of the breaking load of the rope for a rope exceeding 50mm in diameter.
16.2 Certificate requirements
16.2.1 A certificate of test of materials handling equipment manufactured in Australia must be in accordance with the appropriate form for that equipment, as specified in Appendix 23.
16.2.2 A certificate of test in respect of materials handling equipment manufactured in a country other than Australia and tested or thoroughly examined in a country other than Australia by a responsible person, will be acceptable as a certificate of test for the purposes of this Part provided that the certificate contains information substantially equivalent to that required by 16.2.1.
16.2.3 All certificates of test and other relevant certificates, that are:
(a) current in respect of equipment to which this Part applies; and
(b) required by this Part to be kept, made available or furnished to a person,
must be kept with, or near at hand to, the register of materials handling equipment.
16.2.4 A requirement of this Part to keep, make available or furnish a certificate of test in respect of materials handling equipment type-tested in accordance with this Part or being manufactured outside the State or Territory in which the equipment is used may be complied with by keeping, making available or furnishing a certified copy of the prescribed certificate.