Load Testing

As per government legislation all Lifting Machinery must be subjected to a Load test once yearly.

Extract of Driven Machinery Regulation 18.5

(5) (a) The user shall cause the entire installation and all working parts of every lifting machine or hand – powered lifting device, as well as ancillary lifting equipment used with the machine or device, excluding lifting tackle, to be subject- ed to a thorough examination and a performance test, as prescribed by the standard to which the lifting machine was manufactured, by a lifting machinery inspector of a lifting machinery entity, which shall determine the serviceability of the structures, ropes, at machinery and safety devices before they are put into use and every time they are dismantled and re- erected, and thereafter at intervals not exceeding 12 months: provided that, in the absence of a manufacturing standard or a standard incorporated under section 44(1) of the Act, the whole installation of the lifting machine shall be tested with 110% of the safe working load applied over the complete lifting range of such machine and in such a manner that every part of the installation is stressed accordingly.

C.G Ton Lifting Consultants offers a comprehensive load testing service on a country wide basis. We cater to the specific needs of clients, whether for dynamic [or static] load testing of Lifting Machinery, Structures, or Lifting Equipment.

In addition, we perform load testing and commissioning for new installations which stipulate that load testing of critical safety equipment is mandatory.

C.G Ton Lifting Consultants only employ LMI,s [Lifting Machine Inspectors] with the correct scope. They will apply the correct formulae when load testing your Lifting machinery, Lifting structures and Lifting equipment.

C.G Ton Lifting Consultants has its own weights and SANAS Calibrated scales and load cells. All our testing and measuring equipment is calibrated annually.