Schillings Hoisting Equipment is a leading supplier of quality lifting, rigging, materials handling &industrial products throughout Adelaide& SA.

1. Lifting Products SA
Lifting equipment is any work equipment for lifting and lowering loads, and
includes any accessories used in doing so (such as attachments to support,
fix or anchor the equipment).
Lifting Products SA are also known as Lifting Gear. It is includes jacks,
block and tackle, hoists, rotating screws, gantries, A frames, gin poles, shear
legs, sheerleg, windlasses, lifting harnesses, fork lifts, hydraulic lifting pads,
air lift bags, and cranes.
Lifting Products SA used in Warehouses and Factories.
 Pallet trucks.
 Conveyors.
 Powered stackers.
 Order picking ladders.
 Pallet dispensers and inverters.

2. Examples of lifting equipment include:
 overhead cranes and their supporting
runways
 patient hoists
 motor vehicle lifts
 vehicle tail lifts and cranes fitted to
vehicles
 a building cleaning cradle and its
suspension equipment
 goods and passenger lifts
 telehandlers and fork lifts
 lifting accessories
Lifting accessories are pieces of equipment that are used to attach the load
to lifting equipment, providing a link between the two. Any lifting
accessories used between lifting equipment and the load may need to be
taken into account in determining the overall weight of the load.
If your business or organisation undertakes lifting operations or is involved
in providing lifting equipment for others to use, you must manage and
control the risks to avoid any injury or damage.
Where you undertake lifting products SA operations involving
lifting equipment you must:
 Plan them properly
 Using people who are sufficiently
competent
 Supervise them appropriately

3. Planning, organising and carrying out lifting operations.
All lifting products SA operations involving lifting equipment
must be:
 Properly planned by a competent person
 Appropriately supervised, and
 Carried out in a safe manner
In planning any lifting operation, the identification and assessment of risk
is key to identifying the most appropriate equipment and method for the
job. Lifting operations range from:
 The very simple and commonplace, where minimal on-the-job
planning by trained, competent people may be all that is needed to
manage risk; to
 Very complex operations, which require sophisticated and detailed
planning / records, with very high levels of expert input, monitoring
and supervision - undertaken by specially trained personnel
The complexity of the plan and the extent of the resources used to manage
risk must reflect the complexity and difficulty of the lifting operation.
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