- With the lifting industry being as critical as it is,
with there's times lifts can mean life and death
of the people making the lifts,
an accident could cause harm or death to an individual.
It's always good to take something like this
and take it to the companies that deal with this
on a day in, day out basis,
let the professionals
who do live in this industry every day kind of do that.
- Lifting and rigging is a serious business.
Creating an OSHA compliant below the hook lifting device
takes expertise in the ASME standards
as well as the appropriate insurance to back that device.
When looking for a custom below the hook device,
you need to go to a company that not only can build a device
for your needs, but can meet every single one
of OSHA's requirements for that device.
In this video, we'll explain our process here at Mazzella
for engineering and manufacturing
a custom below the hook device
from identifying a need, to lead time, to delivery.
So you know what you can expect when purchasing a device
from a third party.
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My name is Ben, and this is the Lifting and Rigging Channel.
So maybe your crane isn't performing as efficiently
or as safely as you think it can.
Maybe it takes too long to secure a load
or remove your load using slings.
Or maybe something just doesn't seem right
about the way the load is balanced
or moves once it's up in the air.
So you're thinking
about getting a custom engineered below the hook device.
Well, today we sit down
with Dan Sherwood, below the hook product manager,
so we can create some expectations around the process
of ordering a custom below the hook device.
So let's get into it.
- So there's two standards
that below the hook lifting devices have to follow
when being designed.
The first one being the ASME B30.20,
the second one being the ASM BTH-1.
Now the B30.20 really handles talking about
the tagging requirements, load testing,
that type of information.
Whereas the BTH-1 kind of digs deeper
and talks more on the engineering side
with safety factors, design categories, service classes.
It kinda gets into the nitty gritty details
of what this lifter needs to meet, you know,
from the engineering side.
Whereas the B30.20 kind of talks about what needs to be
on each lifter for it to be considered, you know, compliant.
Mazzella has years of that expertise
of understanding the knowledge.
We have engineers that actually sit on the committees
that write the standards that we have to follow.
We have, you know, all the appropriate insurances
and everything to be able to provide you
with a device that is certified,
that is backed by professional engineers,
backed by the standards.
It will meet every OSHA requirement to a lifting device.
You know, when the customer calls us
or our sales reps on site
and they identify an application
that the customer's in need of a below the hook device,
most of the time, we're gonna send out a product specialist
focused in below the hook
to go out, review the application with the customer,
go over everything with the customer,
make sure we have a full understanding
of what they're trying to achieve in this lift.
Understand the parameters of it,
gather some of the measurements of what it is
they're lifting, you know,
restrictions around what they may be lifting.
Get all that information together in a front load
and bring it back to our engineering team.
Our engineering team is gonna work
with our estimation team to kind of put together
a rough idea of what it is that we're gonna provide 'em
for our estimation team to be able to provide the quote
to the customer.
Once the quote's provided the customer
and the customer's okay with it
and we receive a purchase order from them,
it'll then go on into full on engineering.
So engineering will take that, start putting together
what we call it is our approval drawings.
So our approval drawings will be through the drawing
of what it is we're gonna provide,
and we'll have critical dimensions
and measurements on there.
You know, that we ask the customer or, you know,
the product specialist and the customer to go back out,
re-go over the whole process
the application of how they're trying to lift it.
Make sure all the measurements and what it is
that we have come up with,
we feel is going to to work in the application
and be the best piece for the application.
You know, once all that is agreed upon
we'll get the customer to sign off on the approval drawings.
That then kicks it over
into kind of the manufacturing process side.
Engineering will go through, finish off their build prints.
We'll get the materials in, we'll fabricate it.
You know, if we are load testing it, we'll load test it,
paint it, and then ship it off to the customer
for the customer to go ahead and start using it.
Lead time can vary depending
on the complexity of the part.
You know, if it's what we kind of call
falling more in our standard product offerings
where it's not a big, huge, complex build
that's gonna require, you know,
machining and a lot of secondary processes to it.
You know, we're typically anywhere
between six to 10 weeks on a build like that.
If we're starting to get
into some of the bigger items,
some of the mill duty items, some of the stuff that
has to get fabricated, go out for machining, you know,
have these secondary processes done to it,
we can be, you know, again, depending on it,
anywhere from 10 weeks to 24 weeks on something like that.
If you get a device from Mazzella's
and for whatever reason, you know,
damage happens to the device,
we immediately want you to contact
your Mazzella representative.
We'll pull that device outta your facility
and we'll start an investigation into what happened
so we can have a full understanding
of what might have caused the failure on the device.
You know, if it was misuse, mismanufacturing,
just a misunderstanding of the application
and there were forces applied
that were not considered into it,
we'll take all that into account.
If it was just something that, you know,
you've had this device for years
and something finally kind of broke on it
from just life of it, you know, we'll take that,
bring it in, inspect the entire lifter, repair it
and get it back to you to get back into the field to use.
We do not recommend that you work on
or repair any of our equipment in the field.
In doing so it could void the manufacturer's warranty
and liabilities of that device.
When an accident happens, if it's a recordable
it's going to bring OSHA in.
If you've ever had dealings with OSHA inspectors,
you'll understand that they
really kind of dig into everything to make sure
that it's up to standard, meets the standard requirements.
So, you know, from our experiences
when OSHA inspectors go in
and they find devices that, you know,
do not have all the proper markings of the B30.20,
they start to question it
and start probing the customers,
asking for some of the back up information on it.
And when customers don't have that,
that's when they start to find, you know,
some of the fines and everything coming in place.
And on top of the fines that OSHA will imply,
they stand a chance
for some type of legal ramification from, you know,
either the individual that was injured
or if it was a contractor from a different company,
the company could be coming after them.
Even as far down as to like if an in-house engineer,
you know, did some drawings for it,
put something together to have it manufactured,
that engineer could find themselves
personally in a situation where they could be getting sued
or have legal ramifications brought upon them.
You know, it'll just put everybody in kind of a tough spot
that they didn't need to be in.
Cause there are companies out there who offer
lifting solutions that are company-certified
to meet all of the standards, all of the requirements,
and be designed to do what they're designed to do.
So when you purchase a engineered lifting device
it's going to come with all the appropriate tagging on it
that meets the B30.20.
It's going have all the engineering behind it that meets
the ASME BTH-1.
There's a really good chance
it will have been load tested as long as, you know,
the company making it has the capacities to load test
and what the device is.
But the device is gonna come in.
It's gonna have all the appropriate warning markings on it.
It's gonna have all the appropriate tagging on it.
You know, it's going to be designed specifically
to do the application that it it's intended to do.
- If you are ready to purchase
a custom below the hook device from a third party,
then we have a great checklist that you
and your team can go through to help speed up the process.
The link is in the description below.
It covers 19 points your team should know
and consider before requesting a design.
Once you go through the checklist,
you can use the design sheet page
to really dive into the details of what you need.
If you need more information,
we have some great resources linked below.
And mazzellacompanies.com
has great articles, videos, podcasts, and downloads
to help with your below the hook solutions.
I hope this video helped clear up the process
of getting a custom below the hook device engineered
and manufactured for your needs.
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My name is Ben, and I'll see you in the next one.
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