Key; Intended Use; Legal And Normative Principles And Regulations; Regulations And Technical Rules Taken Into Account In The Design Or Manufacture Of The Attachment Devices - Pfeifer Polytex Traducción Del Manual Original

1. Key

DANGER
Dangerous situation with imminent or
threat of death or bodily injury of persons
if it is not avoided.
CAUTION
Dangerous situation with risk of damage to
property if it is not avoided.
NOTE
Useful information and instructions of use.
Wear safety glasses
Wear a protective helmet
Wear safety gloves
Wear safety shoes

2. Intended use

• Attachment devices must be used
exclusively by competent persons or
by qualified persons.
• The attachment device must be examined (within
12 months) exclusively by a competent person.
• Lifting straps may only be used for attaching and
lifting loads in accordance with the European and
national standards and directives.
• Lifting straps are used to connect the load to the
load lifting attachment.
• Any use of the lifting straps other than that described
here is prohibited!
• Lifting of persons is prohibited.
• The lifting of potentially hazardous materials (e. g.
molten metal and acids, glass plates, fissile materials,
parts of nuclear reactors) or components that must
be lifted by the manufacturer using certain specified
attachment devices is prohibited.
• Any change or modification to the lifting straps is
forbidden!
• Polytex lifting straps are approved for commercial
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use only.
3. Legal and normative
principles and regulations
3.1 Regulations and technical rules taken
into account in the design or manu­
facture of the attachment devices
Applicable EC Directives:
• EC machinery directive 2006/42/EC
Applied harmonised European standards:
• EN ISO 12100 Safety of machinery. General principles
for design
• EN 1492-1 Textile slings. Safety. Flat-woven lifting straps
made of man-made fibres for general purpose use
• DIN EN 1677-1 Components for attachment devices –
Safety – Part 1: Forged individual parts Quality grade 8
• DIN EN 1677-2 Part 2: Forged hooks with safety latch
Quality grade 8
• DIN EN 1677-3 Part 3: Forged, self-locking hooks
Quality grade 8
• DIN EN 1677-4 Part 4: Individual links Quality grade 8
3.2 Regulations and technical rules
that must be followed during the use
and during the examination of the
attachment devices
• Work Equipment Directive 2009/104/EC and its
national implementations
• Rules and regulations of the statutory accident
insurance institutions
• EN standards as well as national standards and other
recognised technical rules of the Member States of the
European Union or Turkey or other contracting states to
the Treaty on the European Economic Area, depending
on the place of use of the attachment device.
Polytex flat slings 12/2021 / subject to change!
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