Lifts generally refer to lifting and conveying equipment. This recognition includes cranes, mobile cranes, tower cranes, hoists, vehicle lifts, platforms, stackers, forklifts, pallet trucks, elevators, hoists, escalators and ladders, telescopic systems and all other lifting and transmitting machines.
Generally speaking, lifting and conveying equipment, which is a means of transporting, lifting or stacking a certain load from one location to another, presents the following hazards, which vary depending on the type and capacity of the equipment:
• Falling or tipping load due to rope or chain break
• Falling or tipping of the load due to breakage or dislocation of mechanical connections
• Falling or tipping of the load due to leakage in hydraulic systems
• Falling or overturning of the load due to failure or failure of the braking system
• Falling or tipping of the load due to loading above the carrying capacity
• Accidents due to failure of warning and information systems on equipment
In order to avoid these situations, the equipment should be checked and inspected at regular intervals.
Fatal accidents and injuries in workplaces all over the world are the biggest problems in working life. Ensuring the health and safety of employees is only possible by regularly checking equipment that creates risks during use. Therefore, the functionality of such equipment and whether it creates hazards during operation, whether it has the required criteria and standards and whether it works or not, should be checked periodically. If there are any nonconformities identified in this way, these nonconformities should be removed as soon as possible. If this is done, the health and safety of the employees can be ensured.
Control and Inspection Principles of Lifts
According to the Regulation on Health and Safety in the Use of Work Equipment issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in 2013, lifting and conveying equipment are capable of effectively and safely lifting and holding at least 1,25 times the declared load. has to be. In addition, in order to keep this load in the air, durable and sufficient load brakes are required.
Many test and inspection organizations conduct regular inspections and inspections of the lifts owned by the enterprise in an impartial manner. our organization TÜRCERT Technical Control and Certification Inc. also performs regular control of all kinds of lifting and conveying equipment.
The persons who will carry out this work should be independent, impartial and trustworthy third party and should not be the designer, seller, supplier, installer, owner, user or maintenance of such lifts. Otherwise, the reports to be issued by these persons cannot be valid.
If regular inspection and inspection intervals and the criteria to be taken are not determined by the standards, then the checks are carried out at the intervals and criteria stipulated by the manufacturer. If these issues are not determined by the manufacturer, then a risk assessment is carried out taking into account factors such as workplace environmental conditions, frequency of use and duration of use, and controls are performed at intervals to be determined according to the results. However, in any case, the regular inspection interval should not exceed one year.
Although the test and inspection activities will vary according to the type of equipment, the functions and equipment of the equipment are mainly checked and lifting tests are applied. The persons who will carry out these studies should be mechanical engineers, machine technicians or high technicians.
Our company TÜRCERT Technical Control and Certification Inc., in all capacities and power control and inspection services of the lift, with a competent manager and employee staff and a strong infrastructure and quality, reliable and fast way.