slinging and lifting equipment

1. Slinging & Lifting Equipment
Small Mines Roadshow
October – December 2020​

2. What do you have at Your Site?
 Plant Register of the slings at the quarry.
 DO you have dogman or riggers on site (Operators Competency –
High Risk Work HRW)
 Inspections of the slinging and lifting equipment
 Information on the requirements

3. General info on what the work involves
NSW SafeWork dogging (DG) licence.
Dogging work involving:
• The application of slinging techniques, including the selection and inspection of
lifting gear, to safely sling a load, or
• The directing of a plant operator.
NSW SafeWork basic rigger (RB) licence.
Dogging and rigging work involving:
• Movement of plant and equipment
• Steel erection
• Hoists (including mast climbing hoists)
• Placement of pre-cast concrete
• Safety nets and static lines
• Perimeter safety screens and shutters
• Cantilevered crane-loading platforms
Types of Work requiring a Licence

4. NSW SafeWork intermediate rigger (RI) licence.
All basic rigging work including rigging work involving:
• Cranes, conveyors, dredges and excavators.
• Tilt slabs
• Hoists with jibs and self-climbing hoists
• Demolition
• Dual lifts -
Note: The use of a crane does not mandate the licence. The licence is based on the activity
being performed.
NSW SafeWork advanced rigger (RA) licence.
All intermediate rigging work including rigging work involving:
• Gin poles and shear legs
• Flying foxes and cableways
• Guyed derricks and structures
• Suspended and fabricated hung scaffolds
Types of Work requiring a Licence
- continued

5. Care & Use
Care during use/precautions:
• Examine before use,
• do not overload or damage,
• protect from sharp edges,
• void exposure to damaging conditions
(chemicals, heat, water, sunlight etc).
Limitations for use:
• WLL Working Load Limit,
• Environmental and temperature constraints,
• Radius of bends (Wire slings).

6. Care, Use and Inspection

7. Lifting & Height Safety Equipment
Inspection Schedule

8. https://www.ranger.com.au/can-lifting-equipment-inspections/
What is a competent person?
Australian Standards Definition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CFqsVOWKbQ

9. Storage of Equipment
(All have common care and characteristics)
• Chain, Wire and Flat Synthetic
Webbing Slings should be stored
on properly designed racks “not on
the floor”
• Dry and well ventilated
• Away from heat and chemicals
• Out of direct sunlight and
ultraviolet light for Flat Synthetic
Webbing Slings

10. Discard Criteria
• WLL tag missing
• Ineffective safety catches
• Wear, cuts, nicks, cracks,
corrosion, heat damage,
distortion
• Signs of overloading eg visible
opening or twists in hooks
• Excessive wear on load pins

11. A lifting Chain with Safety Latch and WLL tag
attached
Compliant Equipment

12. Preferred Configuration

13. Hook without Safety Latch Lifting leg removed
Non compliant equipment

14. Incorrect use of lifting equipment

15. When things go wrong!

16. They can get worse

17. Attachment to a Hook

18. Remember whenever lifting any load
Use competent people
Use fit for purpose equipment
And
“Never stand under a suspended load”

19. Slinging & Lifting Equipment
2020 Small Mines Roadshow