Industrial Lifting Bags are Evolving to Solve Lifting and Suspension Issues.
When glass panels needed to be replaced on a high building next to a busy road in Auckland, after a series of sucker failure incidents flagged a national pattern of events, PafBag was brought in to design and develop a comprehensive Secondary Safety Device (SSD) for this safety critical project. The brief was to not only catch a panel in the event of a primary sucker failure but also capture any shards of glass in the event of the panel shattering.
The bag was lined with cut resistant material and designed to allow easy installation to the face of the building. A fully rated lifting sling running through tunnels within the bag provided both integrity and confidence to the contractor, safety officials and client alike.
“This is an example of effective encapsulation – ensuring the load cannot fall out of the lifting system. And this philosophy drives our design and production methods to produce unique solutions and problem resolution”, says Richard Bartrop, Managing Director.
A simple, but equally important example of this concept was addressing the practise of tying winch ropes directly to the handles of tubs and buckets, with the inevitable result of handle failure and dropped contents. The Bucket Lifting PafBag and its EN1492-1 lifting sling provides safety critical integrity for the journey up to the deck, where the tub can be taken out and safely away. This method is a cheap solution as the one lifting bag at the winch can safely lift unlimited numbers of tubs.
Quite often, waterproof cases are used to deliver fragile tools, instruments or replacements to a high location. The PafSling cradle system is designed to convert that case into a lift-compliant load with a 100% guarantee of load security, even in a major tipping incident.
Pafbag has also provided a major service to the domestic solar panel installation industry in the UK by devising a solution that safely lifts multiple loads up a standard height domestic at the rate of one lift per minute. This bag can be opened out to lift loads up 2.4×1.2 metres.
PafBag is proud to be at the leading edge of this mini revolution of encapsulating goods ready to be lifted safely to height.