Sharkey Lifting Ltd

Sharkey Lifting Limited was established in 2005 with a view to supplying, hiring, repairing, inspecting and testing lifting equipment. Our success has been founded on the principle of supplying quality products, excellent service and reacting swiftly to our customers demands.

Lifting Equipment
5 safety precautions to consider when operating lifting equipment

The most crucial safety precautions our lift equipment safety inspectors consider when operating lifting equipment are listed below.

When you are using lifting equipment. It is essential to remain alert and take the essential safety precautions to ensure that accidents are avoided. Accidents can result in injury, damage that is costly or possibly even serious injury of someone in the most severe of situations. This is why it’s crucial to follow the rules like those of the LOLER and PUWER rules.

The more time you’ll spend working with lifting equipment The more respect you’ll get for the safety practices and regulations that are put in place to safeguard you. We at Sharkey Lifting we deal daily with lifting equipment inspection and have learned many things from the experience. To decrease your chance of being the cause or becoming a victim of incident, I’ll detail five safety measures we will never ignore during our lifting equipment inspection.

• Always make sure you check the lifting equipment prior to you start using it.
• Make sure cranes are properly towed for transport
• Don’t place yourself beneath the load
• Do not do any work on a truck bed
• Make sure that your training is up-to current

Testing & Certification
Sharkey Lifting Ltd. offers Portable Appliance Testing (PAT Testing) on electrical tools and equipment ensuring that just one visit to site means your equipment is certified and safe and you are meeting all your safety requirements.

Portable Electrical Appliance means electrical equipment that can or could be moved from place to place e.g. office machinery (computers, copiers, fax machines), kettles, extension leads etc, usually having a lead with a plug attached. The Safety, Health Welfare at Work regulation 2001 Statutory Instrument number 188 2001 states that :

• Every portable appliance must be tested once a year
• The results must be held for 5 years
• The results must also be made available for inspection by inspectors of the HSA

Sharkey Lifting Limited can carry out your lifting gear inspections in-house or on site and have your certification available to download from ’Certbank’ at any time where ever you have internet access.

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