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Inspection (continued)
Unacceptable Work Practice
Risk Control Solutions
Flexible steel wire rope slings
Examples of damaged flexible steel wire rope slings.
• Flexible steel wire rope slings are used with broken strands.
Flexible steel wire rope slings
• The following signs of damage (as a minimum) are looked for during each inspection of flexible steel wire rope slings:
– observe the construction and lay of the rope
– check for signs of rope wear, fatigue, damage and stretching
– check the whole rope for multiple broken wires in the one spot (cut)
– check the talurit or swaged splices for fatigue, corrosion, wear and broken wires where the rope enters a splice, and
– check the whole rope for broken wires (max 10%) in any length of its lay.
Length of lay
Length of lay is where one strand travels around and back to its starting point.
Disposal
Unacceptable Work Practice
Risk Control Solutions
Slings and accessories
• Damaged and unlabelled slings and accessories are not immediately disposed of.
Slings and accessories
• Damaged and unlabelled slings and accessories are
not used or repaired, but are clearly marked to indicate rejection, rendered inoperable and disposed of appropriately.
• See Appendix D for information on flexible steel wire rope.
WorkSafe Victoria Handbook / Working safely with bridge and gantry cranes 15
1. Equipment