Two workers clip their lanyards onto the same M12 eyebolt on a warehouse roof. The bolt carries no marking and no paperwork. Whether it holds or tears out decides whether the fall arrest system works. The short answer: a fall protection anchor point must support at least 5,000 pounds, or 22.2 kN, f...
If a hoist has to work inside a paint booth, a solvent room, or an offshore maintenance bay, electrical equipment is usually the first item removed from the drawing. That single constraint is why the air powered hoist still holds its place on production floors while electric chain hoists have taken...
A maintenance crew needs to lift a 1.5 t pump off its concrete plinth. There is no overhead crane in the building, the aisle is too narrow for a forklift, and the nearest fixed jib crane is two buildings away. An A-frame lift solves this in about ten minutes: two people roll it into position, set i...