Man Basket Safety – Basic Safety Requirements

Today  our topic is Man Basket Safety & we will cover basic safety requirenments of manbasket.

Man Basket Safety – Basic Safety Requirements

• Third party certificate for man basket, slings, and master link should be available.
• Factor of safety for man basket and sling should be 7:1.
• Any man basket activity is considered as a critical and hence risk assessment shall be done prior to job.
• Load test shall be done by putting sand bag/related capacity load before sending of personnel every time.
• Angle of wire rope sling to basket should be more than 45^ (because if angle is less, sling of the basket will be subjected to maximum stress)
• Two tag lines shall be used to control the swinging of man basket.
• Life line shall be installed above the crane hook.
• Inspection of all PPE before use.
• Approved fall protection equipment should be wear.