Test and Certification Procedures of Pulleys as a Part of Personal Fall Arrest System

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2018-06, Vol.365 (4), p.42057
• Main Authors: Pham, Nam Thanh, Vasilenko, Vasiliy, Korolchenko, Dmitriy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anchorages; Certification; Injury analysis; Injury prevention; Product safety; Pulleys; Rescue operations; Test methods
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/365/4/042057

The personal fall arrest system, or the personal protection equipment (PPE), is considered as the solution of an actual problem of serious injuries due to falls from height. The pulleys, as components of personal fall arrest system, their functional purposes ensuring safety of working at heights and preventing falling from heights with hard injuries during works and also rescue operations are analyzed in this article. The analysis of obligatory certification procedure for personal protection equipment was carried out on the example of pulleys. A number of certification faults revealed that pulleys have certified as the anchorage points of a certain class that contradicts technical and functional criteria of requirements to such equipment. Analysis of this problem has shown that in the territory of the Customs union there are no approved methods and technical requirements to this type of products. The aim of this work is to create test methods that meet the functional requirements for this class of products. The tests were conducted in accordance with the presented methods. The differences between the functionally focused test methods and the anchorage test methods have been shown on example of the conducted tests. The final part of the work shows that the obligatory certification should be improved and the number of tools for its implementation as the system controlling quality and safety of many products including such important as PPE should be expanded.