This document provides precautions for sling work and making signs when lifting loads:
1. Only one appointed worker should make signs to communicate with operators. The sign maker must stand in front of the load where they can be seen and see working conditions.
2. Check slings before starting and wear gloves. Measure the load weight and center of gravity.
3. Use proper slings for the load weight and method. Do not use one rope alone and limit hanging angles to 60 degrees to reduce load on ropes.
This document provides precautions for sling work and making signs when lifting loads:
1. Only one appointed worker should make signs to communicate with operators. The sign maker must stand in front of the load where they can be seen and see working conditions.
2. Check slings before starting and wear gloves. Measure the load weight and center of gravity.
3. Use proper slings for the load weight and method. Do not use one rope alone and limit hanging angles to 60 degrees to reduce load on ropes.
This document provides precautions for sling work and making signs when lifting loads:
1. Only one appointed worker should make signs to communicate with operators. The sign maker must stand in front of the load where they can be seen and see working conditions.
2. Check slings before starting and wear gloves. Measure the load weight and center of gravity.
3. Use proper slings for the load weight and method. Do not use one rope alone and limit hanging angles to 60 degrees to reduce load on ropes.
signs 1) Only one appointed worker must make signs and co-workers must communicate with each other frequently. The appointed sign maker must make specified signs clearly at a place where he is seen well from the operator's seat and where he can see the working condition easily. The sign maker must always stand in front of the load and guide the operator safely. q Do not stand under the load. q Do not step on the load. 2) Check the slings before starting sling work. 8) When installing wire ropes to an angular 3) Keep putting on gloves during sling work. load, apply pads to protect the wire ropes. (Put on leather gloves, if available.) If the load is slippery, apply proper mate- 4) Measure the weight of the load by the eye rial to prevent the wire rope from slipping. and check its center of gravity. 9) Use the specified eyebolts and fix wire 5) Use proper sling according to the weight ropes, chains, etc. to them with shackles, of the load and method of slinging. If too etc. thick wire ropes are used to sling a light 10) Apply wire ropes to the middle portion of load, the load may slip and fall. the hook. 6) Do not sling a load with 1 wire rope alone. q Slinging near the tip of the hook may If it is slung so, it may rotate and may slip cause the rope to slip off the hook out of the rope. Install 2 or more wire during hoisting. The hook has the ropes symmetrically. k Slinging with one rope may cause maximum strength at the middle por- tion. turning of the load during hoisting, untwisting of the rope, or slipping of the rope from its original wind- ing position on the load, which can result in a dangerous accident. 7) Limit the hanging angle to 60°, as a rule. Do not sling a heavy load with ropes form- ing a wide hanging angle from the hook. When hoisting a load with 2 or more ropes, the force subjected to each rope will increase with the hanging angle. The table below shows the variation of allow- able load in kN {kg} when hoisting is made with 2 ropes, each of which is allowed to sling up to 9.8 kN {1,000 kg} vertically, at various hanging angles. When the 2 ropes 11) Do not use twisted or kinked wire ropes. sling a load vertically, up to 19.6 kN {2,000 12) When lifting up a load, observe the follow- kg} of total weight can be suspended. ing. This weight is reduced to 9.8 kN {1,000 q Wind in the crane slowly until wire kg} when the 2 ropes make a hanging ropes are stretched. When settling angle of 120°. If the 2 ropes sling a 19.6 the wire ropes with the hand, do not kN {2,000 kg} load at a lifting angle of grasp them but press them from 150°, each of them is subjected to a force above. If you grasp them, your fingers as large as 39.2 kN {4,000 kg}. may be caught. q After the wire ropes are stretched, stop the crane and check the condi- tion of the slung load, wire ropes, and pads.