ASME B30.5是ASME要求最高的安全标准之一，在整个建筑和建筑行业得到广泛尊重和应用。它涉及履带式起重机、机车起重机、轮式起重机及其任何保持相同基本特性并由内燃机或电动机驱动的变体。本安全标准的范围仅包括由内燃机或电动机驱动的上述类型的起重机。不包括为铁路和汽车残骸清理而设计的侧臂牵引车和起重机、挖掘井架、专门为通电电力线路服务制造的起重机或用于通电电力线服务的起重机、转向节吊杆、吊臂起重机以及最大额定容量为1吨或以下的起重机。

ASME B30.5 is one of ASME's most requested safety standards widely respected and applied throughout the building and construction industry. It addresses crawler cranes, locomotive cranes, wheel-mounted cranes, and any variations thereof that retain the same fundamental characteristics and are powered by internal combustion engines or electric motors. The scope of this Safety Standard includes only cranes of the above types that are powered by internal combustion engines or electric motors. Side boom tractors and cranes designed for railway and automobile wreck clearance, digger derricks, cranes manufactured specifically for, or when used for, energized electrical line service, knuckle boom, trolley boom cranes, and cranes having a maximum rated capacity of one ton or less are excluded.