The auditor is not testing your crane. They are testing whether you can produce, in order, the documents that prove someone competent looked at it and what they found.
A crane audit on an industrial site follows a predictable path. Machine, operator, rigging, plan. If the folder is built in that order, the audit takes twenty minutes. If it is not, the crane stops and the day is gone.
The machine
- Current third-party inspection certificate, with the standard applied stated on it.
- Load chart for the machine in the configuration it is standing in, legible and in the cab.
- Manufacturer's manual on board.
- Rope report and the date the rope was fitted.
- Maintenance record showing the last service and any repairs to load bearing parts.
The operator
A current competency card for the exact machine class, an identity document that matches the card, and a medical fitness certificate. The card must be checkable independently. A laminated card with no way to verify it is the single most common finding on a Saudi site audit, and it is the reason we put a QR code on ours.
The rigging
Certificates for every sling, shackle and beam in use, each traceable to the item by its tag. Colour code current for the period. The rigger's own card at the level the lift demands.
The plan
For anything above a routine lift: a lift plan naming the load weight and its source, the radius, the configuration, the ground bearing assessment, the rigging arrangement, and the person responsible. Auditors read the weight and the source first. A load weight with no source behind it invalidates everything below it.
Build the folder before the audit
Every item above exists somewhere on most sites. What fails is retrieval. Keep one folder per machine, physical or digital, with the same five sections every time, and the audit becomes an administrative formality instead of an event.
We inspect and certify plant and lifting equipment across the Kingdom, and every certificate is verifiable online the moment it is issued.