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Rigging Inspect: Remember: Safety First!

The document discusses safety procedures for rigging equipment such as cables, clips, shackles, hooks, and turnbuckles. It emphasizes inspecting rigging equipment for wear, cracks, twisting, and other defects before use to ensure safety.

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Rigging Inspect: Remember: Safety First!

The document discusses safety procedures for rigging equipment such as cables, clips, shackles, hooks, and turnbuckles. It emphasizes inspecting rigging equipment for wear, cracks, twisting, and other defects before use to ensure safety.

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Remember: Safety first!

RIGGING INSPECT
SAFETY Repair or replace any damaged or
defective items you find.
CABLE CLIPS
• Check for wear on saddle.
Rigging is only as strong as its • Check that original parts are in
weakest link. Workers’ lives depend place and in good condition.
on the strength of that link. • Check for cracks.
It doesn’t matter what safe working • Check for proper size of the wire
load is stamped on a hook if the rope.
hook is cracked and twisted or SHACKLES
opening up at the throat. It can’t • Check for wear and cracks on
deliver its full rated capacity. saddle and pin.
• Check that pin is straight and
properly seated.
• Check that legs of shackle are not
opening up.
HOOKS
• Check for wear, twisting, and
Check for cracks.
Check for wear and
cracks • Make sure that hook is not opening
deformation
up.
and
TURNBUCKLES
twisting
• Check for cracks and bends.
Check for signs • Check rods for straightness and
of opening up
damage to threads.

Check for wear


and cracks

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