Safety rope is a valuable piece of PPE safety and fall arrest equipment for working at height or in hazardous fall arrest situations. Safety rope is also known as a lanyard, rope lanyard, lifeline and kernmantle rope, important in not only protecting your safety in a fall situation but to lift and lower heavy safety equipment and people, but also assisting in fall arrest recovery. Safety rope is as important as a harness for your protection ensure you have a safety rope as part of your fall arrest kit and fall recovery kit.
Important considerations when choosing safety rope as fall arrest equipment.
Weight capacity is important ensuring that the rope or lanyard is not used in safety situations where the weight capacity of the rope exceeds the load weight capacity is it used for. This is vital in protecting you, equipment and others from a fall. The length of the rope, especially important when working at height. You must consider the height you are working at and ensure the length of the rope required exceeds the length of the fall from that height. Safety rope and lanyard length are equally important in a rescue situation ensuring the protection of all involved. Safety rope diameter. Safety rope is often used with other necessary safety equipment, lanyards, kernmantles, carabiners/karabiners, fall arrest harness, lifelines, slings, fall limiters, tripods, winches, scaffolding hooks, arrest blocks and forklift cages. All of these and many more must be connected correctly to a safety rope, and the diameter of the rope ensures you have a safe anchor and harness point connection. The safety rope colour is also important when working at height as it can add extra visibility to you and your equipment, especially from a distance, ensuring others are aware of a potential fall hazard ensuring added protection.
Important safety rope and rope lanyard considerations.
Never overload the weight capacity of the safety rope. Use the correct length and diameter of rope for the job. If a safety rope or lanyard is damaged replace it immediately .
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Easy to use:fine adjustment system allows length to
be precisely adjusted for comfortable positioning at a work stationused in double mode (on the harness side attachment points) when the user works with weight on his feet. This type of attachment gives better load distribution on the belt. Length is adjusted ...
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Energy absorber with laynard for attachment to full
body harnesses for protection against falls from height. Constructed from 32mm wide Polyamide webbing Absorber protected by shrinkable, Polyethylene tubing jacket Identity label attached Complete with 2 karabiners. Shock Absorbing Lanyard.
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2 m adjustable restraint lanyard Complete with 2
captive pin aluminium screw gate karabiner Rope ends spliced and covered with polyethylene protective sleeve14 mm polyamide 3-strand twisted rope Ring type adjuster Rope used comply to ISO 1140Breaking strength 25 k NWeight 770 g EN 358:1999; CE. Spartan™ Work Positioning Lanyard. ...
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Tool Tail Detachable Loops: Includes 3 elastic loops
that attach to the 3102 Lanyard for quick exchanges of multiple tools. Energy absorbing cord with tubular nylon webbing Compatible with 3102 and 3104 modular lanyards Captive eye carabiner Modular connecting buckle for exchanging tools Lock stitching at both ends for extra ...