What does lifting equipment do with the working process? Traditional and smart lifting tools can perform more than making physical work easier.
Lifting equipment
Lifting operations have been used inherently for workloads in the construction industry. It can be performed manually by lifting products that are impossible to lift by humans. Both manual and mechanical lifting operations can be risky to construction workers and may cause injury or health symptoms that may cause sick leave or disability. Thanks to the development of lifting equipment, construction work reduces risk and makes operations faster and safer.
Lifting operations
Lifting operations are very much concerned with lifting and lowering loads. Loads are items lifted, including people. The lifting operation can be performed using lifting equipment, which performs various functions, such as:
- Manual lifting
- Holding
- Putting down
- Carrying
- Moving
Lifting operations may occur in transporting materials from the storage place to where they will be transferred. For example, lifting loads moved or transported into another warehouse or nearby. The load includes any material lifted or lowered by the lifting tool.
Types of equipment for lifting
Lifting includes any machinery or equipment used at work to lift or lower loads or people, including attachments and accessories used for:
- anchoring
- fixing
- supporting
There are different types of equipment for lifting, such as:
- Hoist. It is used for lifting or lowering a load by using a drum wrapped by rope or chain. It can be manually or electrically driven and using a lifting medium, such as:
- chain
- fiber
- wire rope
- Crane. A type of machine equipped with the following:
- hoist
- wire ropes/chains
- sheaves
There are types of cranes, namely:
- Tower crane
- Telescopic crane
- Mobile crane
- All-terrain crane
- Crawler crane
- Power shovel. It is a bucket-equipped machine used for loading and digging. It is commonly used for mineral extraction conveyor systems.
- Telescopic handler. It has a versatile single telescopic boom.
- Forklift truck. It is a powered industrial truck with a hydraulic lift system and forks; these parts are used to pick up and transport products or materials.
- Lifting equipment designed to lift people. It is an equipment considered as:
- aerial work platform
- elevating work platform
- mobile elevating work platform
It is a mechanical device used for temporary access of people or equipment to unreachable areas.
- Passenger lift. It is a kind of lifter that is also known as a passenger hoist or construction elevator. It is also used on large-scale construction projects, such as high-rise buildings to transport persons.
