Representatives of various professions: installers, firefighters, rescuers, industrial climbers - often have to perform work related to height. They require the use of special safety measures and should exclude the possible fall of the employee.
To ensure safety and conduct this type of work, there is such a personal protective equipment as a mounting safety belt. Human life directly depends on this equipment, therefore mounting belts are made of high-strength materials using high technology.
Depending on the scope of application, the mounting belt can be not only the main, but also an auxiliary tool. Firefighters and rescuers use it to evacuate victims.
Application area
The mounting safety belt, or retaining leash, performs the function of protecting a person from falling from a height. It holds and fixes the worker on vertical structures, eliminating stalling and falling.
Use it:
- When working on communication and power lines.
- At the oil and radio towers.
- In the construction of high-rise facilities.
- When working in wells and tanks.
- When cleaning work.
- In industrial mountaineering.
- When repairing bulky equipment in enterprises.
Mounting belts firmly hold the body of a person, not allowing him to get injured in strong winds from hitting the structure, eliminating the possibility of it breaking or swaying. Properly selected equipment protects the worker’s lower back and prevents the possibility of developing radiculitis, osteochondrosis, rupture of the spinal muscle as a result of lifting and moving weights at heights.
Types and types of high-altitude equipment
All belts used at height can be of two types: safety belts and mounting belts.
The first type is mainly used for carrying, evacuating people or for work requiring freezing, movement along the safety cable. It is usually equipped with shoulder straps that cross on the back and an extra strap on the chest. This belt is more reliable, it has a comfortable fit.
Mounting belts are only for fixing at a specific height. Mostly used equipment type "sash", characterized by high comfort. The belt tightly covers the waist of the worker, is equipped with mounting rings to which safety slings are attached. The length of the slings is calculated so that when a worker breaks off the construction plane, the drop height does not exceed half a meter. For such cases, many types of belts are equipped with shock absorbers.
Test
Mounting belts are first tested at the factory. They are subjected to static and dynamic loads. Labels with the date of testing are attached to them.
At enterprises and organizations, all types of belts before being issued to employees undergo a visual inspection for the presence of gusts of slings, bends of mounting rings, carbines.
In addition, once a year, testing of mounting belts is carried out in a specialized organization, where they are subjected to a full examination using static and dynamic loads. Belts that fail the test are rejected.
Tests are carried out in accordance with GOST, are documented, tags are attached to the belts with the next inspection date.
Varieties of slings for mounting belts
The slings included in the protective equipment kit can be made of kapron tape or chain. Chain slings are used for work related to aggressive environments, sparks, flames, hot metal.
So, to work at height, you need to purchase a mounting belt. Its price ranges from 270 to 1600 rubles.