KONECRANES says it has successfully upgraded the safety standard of BHP Billiton's cranes and hoists.
According to the overhead cranes and lifting equipment provider, it has already upgraded 22 chain hoists at the Port Hedland iron ore facility, raising them to the new compliance level.
BHP Billiton developed its Fatal Risk Control Protocol (FRCP) 10 in 2005. Konecranes developed safety upgrade kits which are being fitted to crane equipment to make them compliant with FRCP 10.
The company says its greatest challenge was developing a FRCP 10 compliant chain hoist. The standard required for the equipment to have some type of load cell with a digital read out. The chain hoists use a slipping crutch as its overload device, which is not capable of supplying information to a load display.
Konecranes integrated the load sensing into the connection pins present on the chain hoist, allowing load display without loss of lifting height.
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