Uganda Occupational Safety and Health Act 2006 71-75: Lifting gear, appliances and machines: sound, maintained lifting gear tested and certified for loads over fifty kilograms, annealed at least every fourteen months (six months for molten slag chains) unless exempt, never overloaded except for testing; lifting appliances and machines of sound construction, maintained, tested and certified (above one hundred kilograms), with brakes or safety devices on cranes, crabs and forklifts, pawls on hand winches, marked safe working loads and radius indicators on jib cranes, thorough examination by an authorised person within fourteen months and entry in the register, secure support, sound rails and tracks, six-metre clearance and warnings for overhead travelling cranes, trained competent operators over eighteen, secured loads, and a Schedule 6 register of lifting gear, appliances and machines

What does 71-75 require?

Lifting gear is used only if well made of sound, suitable material, strong enough, free of obvious defect and properly maintained; gear lifting more than fifty kilograms is tested and examined by the manufacturer, on its behalf, or by an authorised person, with a signed certificate of the safe working load kept available; gear other than ropes and rope slings is annealed at least every fourteen months (every six months for chains used with molten slag) unless the Commissioner exempts the class, with gear not in regular use annealed only when necessary; and gear is never loaded past its safe working load other than in testing by an authorised person or inspector, who may test any gear and prohibit its use. A lifting appliance or machine is used only if it and all its parts, anchoring and fixing plant included, are well built mechanically of sound material, strong enough and free of obvious defect, properly maintained, and tested and thoroughly examined with a certificate of the safe working load, except appliances lifting one hundred kilograms or less; cranes, crabs and forklifts have an accessible efficient brake or safety device against the fall of a suspended load and for controlled lowering, hand winches an efficient pawl, every appliance and machine carries a clear marking of its safe working load and an identifier (jib cranes with a radius and load indicator visible to the driver), none is loaded past its safe working load other than for testing, and appliances above one hundred and fifty kilograms and every lifting machine undergo a thorough examination by an authorised person within a period set by construction and service and not exceeding fourteen months, with particulars entered in the register. Appliances and machines, including gondolas, are adequately and securely supported, their supporting ropes, chains, structures and plant are of adequate strength, crane rails and transporter tracks are of proper size and strength, evenly laid, supported and maintained, overhead travelling cranes do not come within six metres of anyone working on or close to the wheel tracks and people working above floor level are warned of their approach, lifting machines are operated only by trained and competent persons (or trainees under direct supervision) aged eighteen or over, loads are adequately secured against slipping or displacement, and a register with the Schedule 6 particulars of lifting gear, appliances and machines is kept at the workplace.