CAN/CSA-C225-00 (R2005)

Preface

This is the fourth edition of CSA Standard C225, Vehicle-Mounted Aerial Devices. It supersedes the previous editions, published in 1988, 1976, and 1969.

The purpose of this Standard is to provide criteria for the design, manufacture, testing, inspection, installation, maintenance, use, training, and operation of vehicle-mounted aerial devices to achieve the following objectives:

(a) prevention of personal injuries and accidents;

(b) uniformity in ratings; and

(c) understanding by manufacturers, dealers, installers, maintenance personnel, operators, owners, and users of their respective responsibilities.

With the intention of achieving harmonization on a binational level, a Harmonization Working Group, with members from the CSA C225 Technical Committee and the ANSI/SIA A92.2 Technical Committee, was formed to work cooperatively and prepare a final draft for the CSA and ANSI Technical Committees. 

This Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee on Vehicle-Mounted Aerial Devices under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Occupational Health and Safety and was formally approved by the Technical Committee. It will be submitted to the Standards Council of Canada for approval as a National Standard of Canada.

Scope

1.1 General

1.1.1 Equipment Covered

This Standard applies to the following types of vehicle-mounted aerial devices:

(a) extensible boom aerial device;

(b) aerial ladder;

(c) articulating boom aerial device;

(d) vertical tower; and

(e) a combination of any of the above.

The vehicle may be a truck, trailer, or all-terrain vehicle.

1.1.2 Equipment Not Covered

This Standard does not apply to the equipment listed below:

(a) non-self-propelled elevating aerial platforms, such as those covered in CSA Standard CAN3-B354.1;

(b) self-propelled elevating aerial platforms having a platform that can be positioned completely beyond the base, such as those covered in CSA Standards CAN3-B354.2 and CAN3-B354.3;

(c) self-propelled elevating aerial platforms having a platform that can be positioned completely beyond the base, such as those covered in CSA Standard CAN3-B354.4;

(d) vehicle-mounted vertical lift devices, such as those covered in ANSI/SIA Standard A92.7;

(e) vehicle-mounted bridge inspection and maintenance devices, such as those covered in ANSI/SIA Standard A92.8;

(f) mast-climbing work platforms, such as those covered in ANSI/SIA Standard A92.9;

(g) mobile cranes, such as those covered in CSA Standard Z150;

(h) equipment such as that covered in CSA Standard CAN/CSA-Z271;

(i) fire-fighting equipment such as that covered in ANSI/NFPA Standard 1901;

(j) construction and demolition operation digger derricks such as those covered in ANSI Standard A10.31;

(k) powered crane tip mounted personnel-carrying attachments; and

(l) personnel platforms attached to the crane boom or suspended by hooks.

1.2 Purpose

The purpose of this Standard is to establish criteria for the design, manufacture, testing, inspection, installation, maintenance, use, and operation of vehicle-mounted aerial devices installed on a chassis, primarily used to position personnel, and for the training of operators for that equipment, to achieve the following objectives:

(a) prevention of personal injuries and accidents;

(b) uniformity in ratings; and

(c) understanding by manufacturers, dealers, installers, maintenance personnel, operators, owners, and users of their respective responsibilities.

1.3 Application

The design and manufacturing requirements of this Standard apply to those aerial devices manufactured after the date of publication of this Standard.

1.4 Mandatory Language

In this Standard, shall indicates a mandatory requirement; should indicates a recommendation or that which is advised but not mandatory; and may indicates an advisory or optional statement.

Notes accompanying clauses do not include mandatory or alternative requirements. The purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material that is not properly a part of the requirements of the Standard.

Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as mandatory requirements.

Legends to equations and figures are considered to be mandatory requirements.

1.5 Dual Dimensions

The values given in SI (metric) units are the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.