Brad93
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A company I do a bit of work for has requested fall arrest anchor points welded into a hopper for guys to clear out any debris.
They've spec'd the job as two days for two men including testing of the "Welded Eyelets".
Now, I know a little about anchors being a level 1 rope access tech, and any anchors have got to meet EN 795.
Usually they're bolted on either fixed or some can swivel.
Now this hopper has tonnes of clinker dropped into it so any anchor points aren't gonna last 5 minutes unless made from something 20mm thick +.
And obviously any old bit of plate cut into a pad eye and welded on is not CE Marked EN 795.
So that leads me to, what testing do they want? A load test? Usually this would be about 15kN iirc, which is about 1 and half ton so any pad eye is going to pass that. Or are they talking Dye Penetrant, MPI etc etc.
Anyone have any experience with this type of thing. Weld ON EN 795 gets me no joy on google.
They've spec'd the job as two days for two men including testing of the "Welded Eyelets".
Now, I know a little about anchors being a level 1 rope access tech, and any anchors have got to meet EN 795.
Usually they're bolted on either fixed or some can swivel.
Now this hopper has tonnes of clinker dropped into it so any anchor points aren't gonna last 5 minutes unless made from something 20mm thick +.
And obviously any old bit of plate cut into a pad eye and welded on is not CE Marked EN 795.
So that leads me to, what testing do they want? A load test? Usually this would be about 15kN iirc, which is about 1 and half ton so any pad eye is going to pass that. Or are they talking Dye Penetrant, MPI etc etc.
Anyone have any experience with this type of thing. Weld ON EN 795 gets me no joy on google.