DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR APPROVED LIFTING MACHINERY ENTITY (LME 037)

SALES – MANUFACTURING – REPAIRS – INSTALLATIONS – SERVICING – LOADTESTING & INSPECTIONS

The South African Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), no user shall use a Lifting Machine or Lifting Tackle unless this has been thoroughly examined and subjected to a Performance or Visual Inspection at intervals not exceeding 6 months for Lifting Machines or 3 months for Lifting Tackle. Every user shall at all times keep a register of the full particulars of any test and examination for inspection by an inspector.

The Occupational Health & Safety Act, Act 85 of 1993, Driven Machinery Regulation 18 (5) states that:

“The user shall cause the whole installation and all working parts of every lifting machine to be thoroughly examined and subjected to a performance test, as prescribed by the standard to which the lifting machine was manufactured, by a person who has knowledge and experience of the erection and maintenance of the type of lifting machine involved or similar machinery and who shall determine the serviceability of the structures, ropes, machinery and safety devices, before they are put into use following every time they are dismantled and re-erected, and thereafter at intervals not exceeding 12 months: Provided that in the absence of such prescribed performance test the whole installation of the lifting machine shall be tested with 110 % of the rated mass load, applied over the complete lifting range of such machine and in such a manner that every part of the installation is stressed accordingly.”

With our Smartsheet system in place we will inform the client prior to when next inspection / testing is due.

Load testing and inspections are carried out as per SANS regulation set out by the SABS.

• ““SANS EN 50818 – 6” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled: “Chain slings – safe use and maintenance provided by the manufacturer”
• “SANS 1592” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Short-link steel chain (close – tolerance) for lifting appliances”;
• “SANS 189” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Short-link steel chain (medium – tolerance) for lifting purposes”;
• “SANS ISO 8539” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Forged steel lifting components”;
• “SANS 1595” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Forged steel lifting hooks”;
• “SANS ISO 7592” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Steel lifting chains – use and maintenance”;
• “SANS ISO 3056” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Steel lifting chain slings – use and maintenance”;
• “SANS 1594” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Manually operated chain blocks”;
• “SANS 1636” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Manually operated chain lever hoist”;
• “SANS 1819” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Snatch blocks”;
• “SANS 2408” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Steel wire ropes”;
• “SANS ISO 2415” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Forged shackles”;
• “SANS ISO 4309” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Crane wire ropes”;
• “SANS 94 – 1 & 2” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Flat and round woven webbing slings made of man-made fibres”;
• “SANS 4308” means the South African National Standard Specifications entitled:  “Selection of wire ropes for cranes”;
• SANS 0019 Inspection, test & examination of mobile cranes.
• SANS 10375 Inspection, test & examination of overhead & gantry cranes
• SANS 10388 Inspection, test & examination of lift trucks
• BS7262 Specification for automatic Safe Load indicators
• ISO/CD 9927/3 Cranes / Test Procedures (presently under revision)
• SANS 500 Inspection, test & examination of hand operated chain blocks & lever hoists in use.