World Class Rigging Management

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World Class Rigging Management

• Derrick Bailes - Chief Executive
• Lifting Equipment Engineers Association

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World Class Rigging Management

• Importance of proper rigging gear inspection
• Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected
• Choosing an inspection company

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Importance of proper rigging gear inspection

• Rigging is
• connecting the load to the lifting machine
• (also known as slinging)
• setting up a lifting facility, often temporary
• Hence
• rigging gear, lifting gear, lifting accessories

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Importance of proper rigging gear inspection

• Why?
• everything deteriorates with age and use
• wear
• fatigue
• corrosion
• usually slowly BUT (number 1)
• it can happen quickly

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Importance of proper rigging gear inspection

• BUT (number 2)
• prone to accidental damage
• geometry
• sharp edges
• dynamic (shock) loading
• might subsequently fail

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Importance of proper rigging gear inspection

• Sudden failure
• drops load
• recoil can overturn or collapse crane

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Importance of proper rigging gear inspection

• Objective
• ensure equipment is safe serviceable
• Requires
• regime which detects both
• short term damage
• longer term deterioration

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Essential
• have control of it
• private stocks escape inspection
• Ideal solution
• control issue stores system

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Control issue stores system
• only serviceable equipment issued
• only issued to authorised persons
• may require formal documentation
• record of issue
• to whom
• for how long
• acknowledgement of issue

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Control issue stores system
• hands over control responsibility
• recipient responsible for
• return to store
• reporting any loss
• reporting any problems with equipment

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Control issue stores system
• Essential
• problems not covered up
• encourage no blame culture

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Control issue stores system
• Consider also
• managing shift or crew changes
• Ensure also
• adequate equipment available to cover for any
  accidentally damaged

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Control issue stores system
• Equipment returned to store
• inspected (or quarantined)
• record made
• identity of the item
• who inspected it
• result serviceable or unserviceable
• quarantine unserviceable equipment

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• The Rigger
• should be capable of inspecting equipment
• should keep an eye on it for
• any malfunction
• any occurrence which might cause damage
• if appropriate, withdraw it from service

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Storage
• storage conditions should minimise deterioration
• some equipment can be affected by long storage
  therefore check again at time of issue

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Identification of equipment
• unique identification essential
• most cost effective to be done at point of
  manufacture or supply
• traditionally done by
• hard stamping into item
• tag or label
• newer technologies RF identifiers

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• So far
• inspection as part of control and issue system
• checks by rigger in-service inspection
• that should ensure equipment is serviceable
• Next
• periodic inspection or thorough examination

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Periodic inspection or thorough examination
• legal requirement in many countries
• usually at 6 month intervals for most items
• should be a long stop safety measure not the
  only inspection
• if problems are found, in-service inspection is
  failing

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• Q Who does the inspection?
• A A competent person
• Q What is a competent person?
• A Someone competent for the purpose
• Q So what does competent mean?
• A There are some qualities every competent
  person should have

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Ensuring rigging gear is properly inspected

• A competent person should have
• theoretical knowledge
• how the item is made, likely problems etc
• practical experience
• sufficient to develop good judgement
• personal attributes
• practical e.g. eyesight, work at height
• moral character to act with impartiality and
  integrity

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Choosing an inspection company

• Essential elements
• qualified inspectors
• organisation management
• technical resources
• systems of work
• record keeping

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Choosing an inspection company

• ISO/IEC 17020 General criteria for the
  operation of various types of bodies performing
  inspection
• useful but general in nature
• needs supplementing for rigging gear inspection

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Choosing an inspection company

• Lifting Equipment Engineers Association
• specific qualifications for personnel
• technical requirements for members
• organisation management
• facilities
• methods of verification
• test examination equipment
• material control
• documentation records

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Choosing an inspection company

• LEEA - Technical audit against requirements
• on application for membership
• regular surveillance audits
• established programme in UK
• now rolling out across overseas members
• re-classification underway

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Choosing an inspection company

• qualified personnel
• LEEA membership
• assured capability

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Conclusions

• Inspection vital for control of
• safety
• financial risk
• Robust inspection regime comprises
• control issue
• rigger checks
• periodic inspection

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Conclusions

• Remember
• each is mutually supportive
• humans do make errors however diligent
• accidents rarely due to a single factor
• A robust inspection regime allows for errors

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