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Hello,
Last week at my work place Inspection of Lifting equipments was going on. I saw a rigger applying paint on a web sling for the purpose of colour coding. I know that chemical exposure would degrade the synthetic web sling. I advised him not to paint web slings . I think I was right.
I seek your opinions gentle men? Is there any alternative to colour code the web sling?
Selvin Joe James.
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I am sure you don't really want to restrict your responses to 'gentle men' - so here goes.
Why not use nylon cable ties? They are available in a wide range of colours.
I would be concerned about the paint; it all depends on the solvents it contains.
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selvinjoe wrote:Hello,
Last week at my work place Inspection of Lifting equipments was going on. I saw a rigger applying paint on a web sling for the purpose of colour coding. I know that chemical exposure would degrade the synthetic web sling. I advised him not to paint web slings . I think I was right.
I seek your opinions gentle men? Is there any alternative to colour code the web sling?
Selvin Joe James. Why was he colour coding them?? If you operate a tag system on them, you can different colour tags that can stand out and have a double purpose as a immediate visual of the SWL
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ask the person why he was painting; as on many an occasion a quick glance to note a colour can help the riggers etc. more easily that walking over and looking in detail
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At a previous employer we tackled this through the supplier. Rather than having something that could become detached in use as the slings were synthetics we arranged that replacements came in with the outer sleeve coloured to denote the SWL of the sling.
Followed the rainbow ROYGB as our coding system with Red being 500Kg, Orange 1Mt, Yellow 2Mt, Green 4Mt etc...
For woven belt slings we arranged that the colour would be added to the weave as a stripe.
Then in the Safe Systems for lifting operations the operator instruction was to verify against the manufacturers tag attached to the sling (to cover for the one employee with colour definition issues) - no tag = do not use and report to management.
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At a previous employer we tackled this through the supplier. Rather than having something that could become detached in use as the slings were synthetics we arranged that replacements came in with the outer sleeve coloured to denote the SWL of the sling.
Followed the rainbow ROYGB as our coding system with Red being 500Kg, Orange 1Mt, Yellow 2Mt, Green 4Mt etc...
For woven belt slings we arranged that the colour would be added to the weave as a stripe.
Then in the Safe Systems for lifting operations the operator instruction was to verify against the manufacturers tag attached to the sling (to cover for the one employee with colour definition issues) - no tag = do not use and report to management.
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Evening Joe,
Check out spanset slings, all colour coded appropriate to SWL. There are labels attached to give limitations when increasing lift angle 30 / 60 degrees etc. They also include types of lift i.e. choke hitches / snick ling / doubling up.
Regards
Alex
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Coloured cable ties is our method - easy to add and remove and relatively cost effective.
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Thank you all for your suggestions.
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