ISO 4309:2010确立了起重机和提升机用钢丝绳的维护、检查和报废的一般原则。 适用于以下类型起重机上使用的绳索，其中大多数在ISO 4306-1中定义:缆索和门式缆索起重机；悬臂起重机（立柱吊臂、墙壁或步行）；甲板起重机；井架和拉线起重机；带刚性支撑的起重机；浮吊；移动式起重机；桥式起重机；门式或半门式桥式起重机； 门式或半门式起重机；铁路起重机；塔式起重机；海上起重机。

ISO 4309:2010 establishes general principles for the care and maintenance, and inspection and discard of steel wire ropes used on cranes and hoists. It is applicable to those ropes used on the following types of cranes, the majority of which are defined in ISO 4306？1: cable and portal cable cranes; cantilever cranes (pillar jib, wall or walking); deck cranes; derrick and guy derrick cranes; derrick cranes with rigid bracing; floating cranes; mobile cranes; overhead travelling cranes; portal or semi-portal bridge cranes; portal or semi-portal cranes; railway cranes; tower cranes; offshore cranes.