How Can You Improve The Safety Of Lifting Operations In Hazardous Areas?
The global lifting industry faces substantial planning, logistical and procedural challenges during operations.
Operating critical machinery, often in hazardous offshore environments, comes with significant QHSE risks, and all the while companies strive for increased safety and cost efficiency.
This push for more cost-effective techniques creates demand for innovation that can help facilitate reduced costs and risks. (Read More)
Service providers like Scotload are responding to these increasing requirements by working closely with customers in the lifting industry to add value to their operations.
Recently, the company launched Zone I certified wireless SmartLoad® products to complement its range of hazardous area load monitoring solutions, delivering improved safety to complex lifting operations.
Describing how this innovative technology benefits customers, Simon Everett, managing director of Scotload says: “The exciting addition of SmartLoad 1Ex to our extensive portfolio enables us to assist customers in eliminating cables from critical work areas, helping to reduce associated maintenance costs and improve operational safety.”
A project with lifting and mooring equipment specialist, Ansell Jones, demonstrates how collaborative working and the use of this innovative technology has benefited the industry. Ansell Jones approached Scotload with a requirement to convert a spider crane for Zone II environments on a North Sea offshore platform.
Typically offshore lifting operations need scaffolding and winches, but the spider crane’s manoeuvrability will enable lifts to be performed quickly, safely and efficiently at multiple locations on the platform, significantly increasing operational efficiency and reducing costs. This conversion for Zone II rated use was an industry first.
SmartLoad includes numerous display options with are hazardous area certified, including an ergonomically designed handset featuring an intuitive menu. Requiring only one handset to connect load cells, load pins, links, shackles and tension line monitors, these simple plug and play products automatically detect all cells in range with a live simultaneous display of multiple cells, all of which are certified to the latest standards.
Adrian Coventry, Strainstall’s engineering director explains: “We applied the latest wireless technology to enable SmartLoad to deliver increased range and signal reliability over any other hazardous area product currently on the market.”
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