As per government legislation all Lifting Machinery must be subjected to a Load test once yearly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n (5) (a) The user shall cause the entire installation and all working parts of every lifting machine or hand \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0powered lifting device<\/strong>, 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\u00a0every time they are dismantled and re- erected, and thereafter at intervals not exceeding 12 months:\u00a0<\/strong>provided that, in the absence of a manufacturing standard or a standard incorporated under section 44(1) of the Act, the whole installation of\u00a0the lifting machine shall be tested with 110% of the safe working load\u00a0<\/strong>applied over the complete lifting range of such machine and in such a manner that every part of the installation is stressed accordingly.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n In addition, we perform load testing and commissioning for new installations which stipulate that load testing of critical safety equipment is mandatory.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-load-testing","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonlifting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Extract of Driven Machinery Regulation 18.5<\/strong><\/h4>\n