Cargo, Fumigation and Tackle Regulations (SOR/2007-128)

313. Cargo gear shall be easily identifiable from the information set out in any certificate for the gear or from any entry for the gear in a vessel’s register.

• 314. (1) If a person does not produce the register when directed to do so under paragraph 211(4)(e) of the Act, cargo gear that should be listed in the register shall not be used until it is produced.

• (2) If the certificates for any cargo gear that should be listed in the register are not attached to it when it is produced, that cargo gear shall not be used until the certificates are produced or the cargo gear is tested or thoroughly examined.

315. If a person is directed under paragraph 211(4)(e) of the Act to produce the register, on production of the register, the person shall report any change in the cargo gear listed in the register since it was last tested that could adversely affect the results of that test.

316. The register and certificates shall be kept on board the vessel or at the cargo gear owner’s premises, as the case may be, for at least five years after the date of the most recent entry in the register.

• 317. (1) The safety factors set out in or determined in accordance with any of the following shall be adopted as a minimum in the manufacture of the articles set out in column 1 of Schedule 6:

  • (a) column 2;

  • (b) the regulations, rules or codes of a classification society;

  • (c) if the article is a part of a lifting appliance that is operated onshore or on a restricted vessel,

    • (i) the regulations of the province in which the appliance is being operated,

    • (ii) the standards of the International Standards Organization, or

    • (iii) the standards of the Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. (DIN); or

  • (d) in the case of wire rope that is part of a lifting appliance that is operated onshore or on a restricted vessel, paragraph E.1.2 of Appendix E to Safety and Health in Ports.

• (2) Cargo gear shall not be used when, because of wear, corrosion or other reasons, the safety factor of any part of it is less than 80% of the safety factor adopted in its manufacture.

• 318. (1) No lifting appliance shall be loaded beyond its safe working load.

• (2) The resultant load on main accessory gear or loose gear used with a lifting appliance shall not exceed the safe working load of the gear.

• (3) Single-sheave pulley blocks may be used in any position where the maximum resultant load on the head fitting is not more than twice the safe working load engraved or stamped on the block.

319. In each case referred to in subsections 323(2) and (3), the safe working load shall be determined for the lowest working angle of the boom shown in the rigging plan for the derrick.

• 320. (1) The safe working load of loose gear shall be determined by an expert person testing a prototype of the gear to destruction.

• (2) Despite subsection (1), the safe working load of specially designed spreader beams, lifting frames and lifting clamps shall be determined by an expert person using design calculations.