Polyspast -personal fall protection equipment. Features of certification and certification tests

Abstract

In the paper there was considered polyspast system as a means of personal protective equipment against falling from height. The structural place of these products in the classification of protective equipment, their functional purpose in ensuring the safety of work at height is analysed. The issue of statistics of accidents at work at height is touched upon. The relevance of the issue of continuous work on safety in this sector of work is shown. There are similarities in the need for safety and rescue operations in both the sports and industrial sectors. The purpose of this work is to form competent recommendations on various aspects of certification and certification tests of polyspasts to improve the safety of users, athletes (including children) and rescuers when performing various tasks and work at height. Within the framework of this work, the procedures for forming technical requirements for certified products, the totality of interaction of the main technical requirements of the technical regulations with the lists of standards specified in the Appendix to the technical regulations are considered. The analysis of two examples of polyspasts, certified in the market of the Eurasian Customs Union. The weak points of their certification due to the problems of the normative and technical state of the main documents in this area are shown. The conclusions provide a brief analysis of the problems of certification and certification testing of polyspast systems. Recommendations of both structural and local nature are formulated to improve the safety of certified products.