FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 27 Chains, ropes and lifting tackle.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 27

Chains, ropes and lifting tackle.

27.(1) The following provisions shall be complied with as respects every
chain, rope or lifting tackle used for the purpose of raising or lowering
persons, goods or materials:

(a)a chain, rope or lifting tackle shall not be used unless it is of good
construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect;

(b)subject to subsection (2), a table showing the safe working loads of every
kind and size of chain, rope or lifting tackle in use, and, in the case of a
multiple sling, the safe working load at different angles of the legs, shall
be posted in the store in which the chains, ropes or lifting tackle are kept,
and in prominent positions on the premises, and any chain, rope or
lifting tackle not shown in the table shall not be used;

(c)a chain, rope or lifting tackle shall not be used for any load exceeding
its safe working load as shown by the table mentioned in paragraph (b) or
marked as mentioned in subsection (2);

(d)all chains, ropes and lifting tackle in use shall be thoroughly examined by
a competent person at least once in every period of six months or at such
greater intervals as the Ministry may prescribe;

(e)a chain, rope or lifting tackle, except a fibre rope or fibre rope sling,
shall not be taken into use in any factory for the first time in that factory
unless it has been tested and thoroughly examined by a competent person and a
certificate of the test and examination specifying the safe working load and
signed by the person making the test and examination has been obtained and is
kept available for inspection;

(f)every chain and lifting tackle except a rope sling shall, unless of a
class or description exempted by certificate of the chief inspector upon the
ground that it is made of such material or so constructed that it cannot be
subjected to heat treatment without risk of damage or that it has been
subjected to some form of heat treatment (other than annealing) approved by
him, be annealed at least once in every fourteen months or, in the case of
chains or slings of half-inch bar or smaller, or chains used in connection
with molten metal or molten slag, in every six months, except that chains and
lifting tackle not in regular use need be annealed only when necessary;

(g)a register containing the prescribed particulars shall be kept in respect
of all such chains, ropes or lifting tackle, except fibre rope slings.

(2) Subsection (1)(b) shall not apply in relation to any lifting tackle if its
safe working load or, in the case of a multiple sling, the safe working load
at different angles of the legs is plainly marked upon it.

(3) In this section "lifting tackle" means chain slings, rope slings, rings,
hooks, shackles and swivels.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 27