GB 45943-2025 English PDF - Construction Machinery and Equipment Standards

Standard Introduction

This document specifies the general safety requirements for construction machinery and equipment.

This document applies to construction machinery and equipment including, but not limited to, concrete and mortar machinery, drilling and foundation construction equipment, tunnel construction machinery, road construction and maintenance equipment, building demolition or disposal machinery, engineering building material products machinery, as well as steel bar and prestressing machinery.

This document does not apply to earthmoving machinery, hoisting machinery, construction hoists, aerial work platforms, window cleaning machines, forklift trucks, machinery and equipment specialized for open-pit mining, and underground mining machinery and equipment for extracting solid minerals, even if such machinery and equipment may be used for construction or maintenance purposes.

This document does not apply to transport vehicles (e.g., automobiles, tractors, etc.), even if such transport vehicles may be used as the main units of construction machinery and equipment and have been specially modified to serve the application of construction machinery and equipment.

Note 1: This document does not cover all specific requirements for each individual machine or machine type of construction machinery and equipment. Safety standards for specific machines or machine types are given in Annex A. When applying this document, the safety requirements specified in the standards listed in Annex A shall be taken into account.

Note 2: Chapter 4 of this document sets forth the basic requirements, while Chapters 5 to 8 specify supplementary requirements for specific machinery and equipment.