Tractel Longe EN 354 Manual De Empleo Y De Mantenimiento página 10

"Maximum working load": Maximum weight of the fully
dressed user, equipped with their PPE, work clothes, tools
and the components required for intervention.
"Fall arrest system": Set consisting of:
- Fall arrest harness.
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- Retractable fall arrest or mobile energy absorber or fall
arrester on rigid anchor or mobile fall arrester on fl exible
anchor.
- Anchor.
- Linking component.
"Component of fall arrest system": Generic term defi ning
one of the following components:
- Fall arrest harness.
- Retractable fall arrest or mobile energy absorber or fall
arrester on rigid anchor or mobile fall arrester on fl exible
anchor.
- Anchor.
- Linking component.
2.2 Pictograms
DANGER:
Placed at the start of the line denotes instructions to avoid
injury to persons, including death, serious or minor injuries,
and damage to the environment.
IMPORTANT :
Placed at the start of the line denotes instructions to avoid
failure or damage to equipment, but not such as directly
endangering the life or health of the operator or those of
others, and/or being likely to cause environmental damage.
NOTE:
Placed at the start of the line denotes instructions to ensure
the effectiveness and convenience of installation, usage or
maintenance operation.
Inspection before use
• Visual inspection of the state of the lanyard, the seams
and/or the splices. The cord, the belt and the stitches
should not show any signs of wear and tear, burns or cuts.
In case of doubt, immediately withdraw the equipment
from use.
• Check the state of the harness and connector
attachments.
• Check the complete fall arrester system.
4. Functions and description 4. Functions and description
• A lanyard can be manufactured from rope, braided rope
or strap. The strap lanyard can have a fi xed length (strap
lanyard) or a variable length (elastic strap lanyard). The
elastic function enables you to shorten the length of the
lanyard when it is not tensioned by the operator and
avoids any discomfort during movements. The length of
the elastic strap lanyard is defi ned for a load of 5 kg.
• If a lanyard is combined with an energy absorber:
- The full length of the lanyard equipped with energy
absorber, two machined ends and two connectors
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3. Operation 3. Operation
must not exceed 2 m.
- A connector EN 362 must be used to connect the
lanyard and the energy absorber.
- If the lanyard is a double lanyard and only has one
energy absorber, connect the energy absorber to the fall
arrest harness and to the lanyard at the anchoring point.
- Do not correct two lanyards each equipped with an
energy absorber in parallel between an anchoring
point and the fall arrest harness.
- Take all necessary measures to avoid falling on
sharp edges if lanyard is used horizontally, but if
after analysis there is a risk, set up padding on the
sharp edge.
• Single lanyards, without shock absorber, (fi g. 2, page 2),
or positioning lanyards, are not fall protection lanyards,
and must not be used as a fall arrest system. They are
designed to guard against the risk of a fall by preventing
the user accessing dangerous areas (fi g. 4, page 3). They
are used to create or to lower an anchoring point.
Specifi c lanyards:
• The Option RL strap (ref. 032872 – fi g. 2.b, page 2) is
an extension that affi xes to the dorsal anchor point of
the fall arrest harness (fi g. 6, page 4). This component is
interspaced between the fall rest dorsal anchor point and
the fall arrester. It is used to facilitate connection between
the two components of the fall arrest system.
• The fork rescue lanyard (ref. 032862 – fi g. 2.a, page 2)
is used after a fall to evacuate a person who has fallen
as effi ciently as possible. It is connected to the shoulder
straps of the harness worn by the person to be rescued
using two spring hooks (fi g. 5, page 3).
5. Precautions in use 5. Precautions in use
It is strictly forbidden:
• to install or use a lanyard without being authorised,
trained and recognised as competent or failing that,
without being under the supervision of an authorised
person trained and recognised as competent.
• to use a lanyard if the marking is not readable.
• to install or use a lanyard that has not been subject to
prior verifi cation.
• to use a lanyard that has not been subject to periodic
review during the prior 12 months, by a technician who
has authorised its return to use in writing.
• to use a lanyard for any other application than protection
against the risk of people falling.
• to attach a lanyard by any other means that its
manufactured ends.
• to use a lanyard in any way other than that defi ned in the
section "13. Lifespan".
• for a lanyard to be used by a person whose weight,
including equipment and tools, is greater than 150 kg.
• to use a lanyard with a load of between 100 kg and 150 kg
(total weight of the user, their equipment and tools) if a
component of the fall arrest system has a lower maximum
load.
• to use a lanyard if it has arrested a fall.
• to use a lanyard outside the temperature range specifi ed