Analysis and Comparison of Information on Load Lifting Equipment - Electric Cranes

Lifting equipment must be in accordance with safety standards that require conditions or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes that are necessary or appropriate to ensure safe and healthy workplaces. As a result, to guarantee the free flow of technical products, the European Commission proposed to the Council a new regulatory technique that includes: (1) a New approach to product regulation and (2) a Global approach to product conformity assessment. Three fundamentally new principles were introduced by approval of a new regulatory: (1) Standardization as support for legislation, (2) New type of directive, (3) Presentation of the conformity assessment policy. As part of the standards and directives, mandatory labeling of products with the CE mark (Conformité Européene) is introduced, which indicates that the product meets the requirements specified in EU directives and will not endanger the health or safety of users. All machines and devices that are placed on the territory of the EU/Republic of Serbia must have written warnings and information in a language that the user of the machine understands. Also, all information for operating the machine must be unambiguous, easy to understand, and must not be too extensive, so as not to overload the operator. The machine must contain all the necessary information relevant to its type and use. This research aims to show the significance of CE marking and the importance of machine information, where by choosing electric cranes as an example, the comparative analysis of manufacturers’ manuals will be conducted. This will enable the identification of advantages and disadvantages and space for improvement of the given instructions and how much those instructions are by the general principles and content prescribed within the Directive on Machinery 2006/42/EC and the Machinery Safety Regulation.