Certification

We are helping our customers to bring their “grandfathered” or built-in-house equipment up to safety codes.

not commercially manufactured

During our periodic inspections and planned maintenance of overhead cranes, it is quite often that we encounter built-in-house, DIY or not commercially manufactured lifting devices. The most common are monorails and A-frame gantry cranes. At one point these load-bearing structures might have been sized up from a rigger’s handbook or similar literature, used for a specific job, and then became permanent installations.

Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act refers to these as “not commercially manufactured”:

If a lifting device is not commercially manufactured, an employer must ensure that it is fit and safe for use as a lifting device and that it is certified by a professional engineer.

Alberta OH&S, art. 60 not commercially manufactured

Any device not provided with a nameplate from a verifiable manufacturer, without a visible load rating or altered in any way from the original, falls in the above category.

We can verify the structural integrity, calculate safety factors, and either certify the equipment by providing Load Rating and Stamped Drawings; or provide recommendations required for certification.

structural repairs or modifications to lifting devices

When lifting devices require structural repairs, either from normal wear or incidents, sometimes OEM parts are not an option. This might be due to a discontinued product, manufacturer out of business, or long part lead times.

Sometimes existing equipment requires structural modification, either due to relocation or to satisfy a different requirement.

We can help you navigate through these kinds of repairs and/or modifications, whether you have the resources for executing the work in-house or provided by us.

An employer must ensure that structural repairs or modifications to components of a lifting device are (a) made only under the direction and control of a professional engineer, and (b) certified by the professional engineer to confirm that the workmanship and quality of materials used has restored the components to not less than their original capacity.

Alberta OH&S, art. 73(1) Repairs and modifications

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