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Our LOLER examiners use (like many) a cable-tie based identifier that a piece of kit has been checked. Our shackles (in particular) get some pretty rough handling, usually resulting in loosing the tag quickly. These are mostly 2-ton and below, so small items.
I'm having a think about improving this situation and would love any ideas people have for how it's done in your company.
Our personnel work off-site, spread across a large geographical area with nobody senior enough there to slap their wrists if they don't be nice to the shackles, so I wouldn't anticipate any success from instruction alone.
Given that the items all have IDs we could just inspect everything on the vehicle 6-monthly and not bother about tags but this removes the chance to verify on site that the piece of kit you're about to use has been examined. Does anyone do it this way?
Or has anyone found a better way of attaching an examination tag to a small item?
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In my current situation, no, we don't tag.
In my previous job we did. We used to put a blob of paint on each item in a position where we felt it would be unlikely to be rubbed off. In fact, the roughness of most items meant that paint got engrained.
Each 6 months, the colour changed, and we had posters up telling people the current colour, with the instruction to impound everything they came across that was the wrong colour.
This enabled people to see that they were using items that had been inspected, and it also had a bonus that a trickle of 'borrowed' items made their way back to their rightful place.
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We do tag through the LOLER examiners with a coloured cable tie but I will be honest and say that I have never seen a tag come off, but their tags are quite heavyweight and tied so tight you couldn't get a hair in the gap, so perhaps it is the way they are fitted at your place. Ours tend to go up to 5 tons or thereabouts.
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yes we tag too, but have stopped using "Ear Tags" as we found they came off very easily They also got in the way, Coloured Cable ties are now used every 6 months which are normally tied very tightly around the main body of the shackel close to the screwpin,
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We tag with coloured cable ties, which are changed by the LOLER inspecting engineer. We also have a locked bin where items without tags are deposited ready for the next inspection, which means that they cannot be used until the engineer is back on site to inspect.
HTH
Stuart
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Hi all,
Thanks very much for the responses. Am I the only person getting dodgy cable ties then? I'll have a chat with our contractors and see if we can come up with a way of ensuring they stay on. Currently our coloured tags state the time of the next due inspection but maybe changing this to colour alone would allow us to get them more snug.
I do like the paint splodge though. Thanks again.
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