Secure as a Truck?
One of the challenges I see in the field with lifting equipment is that people build boxes. Sometimes they come with a rating from an engineer. In many locations, safety people will accept this. It’s not the choice I would make, but it’s arguably fine as a practice. Someone has rated it and in most locations, they’ll have tested it to 125% of the rating. Where these boxes go wrong is that they are lifted without being enclosed. Maybe they were originally meant to be used with an end. That likely would have been part of the rating and the testing. Then one day someone removed it and decided it was fine. And so we end up with practices like this.
No Rating on the box - Open ended
Items could slide out and we are left to the rigger being the standard instead of engineering out the hazards. As I state in one of the pictures, we have a standard being used that would be illegal going down a highway. Only now we have items that could fall out at the speed of gravity, and we don’t even have a vehicle surrounding us to protect us from the hazard. It’s time we look a little closer at what we are doing and what we have just been getting lucky with.
Not secure enough for the road, but OK overhead?
