Safelifter - Safety Lifting Device
The SAFELIFTER is a highly innovative safety lifting device that self-aligns and attaches to cranes, lifting arms, hoists and winches. The SAFELIFTER comes in 2 parts: the Lifter and a Link. The Lifter weighs 9.8kg, measures 22cm x 23cm, and is certified to lift 10 tonnes. The Links are made and certified to whatever weight is necessary. The SAFELIFTER will also be tested and certified in compliance with the highest worldwide standards including EU/USA (ISO/AMSE/CE). The Link can be custom designed and made to order to fit any pump or object that needs to be lifted.
Using a pump as an example, the Link replaces a conventional handle screwed into the top of a pump. When the Lifter is lowered down into a pump/lifting station to remove a pump for maintenance, it self-aligns with the Link from any angle. Once the Lifter and Link are firmly connected, they automatically lock together, enabling the pump to be lifted safely to the surface. Inversely, the Lifter will disengage from the Link once the pump has arrived in its operating position and the weight has been taken off the Lifter.
In the case of flooded or deep wells with no visibility, the Lifter can be attached to a guide wire by a shackle that runs down to a guide hole incorporated into the Link on top of the pump, guiding the Lifter effortlessly to the Link, making the SAFELIFTER 100% effective in all situations.
By eliminating the need for chains, the SAFELIFTER removes people from close proximity to hazardous situations and hugely reduces the need for compliant space entries into wells. This system provides the benefit of enhanced safety in dangerous, difficult, dirty, or toxic environments which involve the maintenance of water pump/lifting stations in the water management, mining and construction industries.
Incorporating a cutting-edge design, high-quality noncorrosive steel,and precision engineering,the SAFELIFTER is an extremely cost efficient breakthrough in lifting technology.
Pumps in any well or pump/lifting station need to be serviced and checked regularly. To do this, steel chains have to be attached to the pump and to the surface in order to raise and lower the pump. Despite being stainless steel, the chains are legally required to be replaced anywhere from every few months in chemical, industrial wells to every few years in less corrosive environments and strength tested regularly, resulting in increased labour costs and lost production time.
This becomes very expensive when a high number of pump/lifting stations have to be serviced, such as by water authorities and councils, as well as in industries such as mining, gas, oil, and construction where chains are used and need to be checked and replaced regularly.
Because the Link on the SAFELIFTER does away with the need for chains, it eliminates the cost of the chains, along with the problems that come with using chains, including over-loading, broken handles, weak shackles, broken D-shackles, excessive ragging, corrosion and time spent strength testing the chains. Since the only thing that needs to be replaced with this system is the Link, which is much less expensive than chains and made to a quality and strength to withstand the environment it is used in. the SAFELIFTER reduces or completely eliminates the costs on chains, maintenance and manpower.
Using the SAFELIFTER with a lifting arm and wire rope gives more of a controlled and smooth action than can be achieved when using chains in the lowering and raising of pumps. By eliminating the possibility of chains becoming corroded or stressed and shackles or D-links breaking, there is no danger of the pump being damaged or broken from crashing back into the well. As a result, this eliminates the need for workers to go into confined spaces to recover, repair, or replace broken pumps.
An additional benefit of this system is that it eliminates the need for someone to lean into the well for the difficult task of locating the chains in the first place, thus further enhancing safety.
Furthermore, the lack of standards for stainless steel lifting equipment in the industry, means that it is difficult for companies to know if they are purchasing a sub standard or high quality product, at an affordable price.
The SAFELIFTER is made with high precision engineering, tested,certified and guaranteed to meet the highest standards in manufacturing, companies can be reassured that they are using a product certified to the highest quality.
The SAFELIFTER has been designed primarily for use in the water treatment industry, where its safety features can enable pumps that require regular maintenance to be lifted and lowered into and out of pump/lifting stations, wells or any confined or hazardous spaces that would normally put people’s safety at risk. It also eliminates the risks of broken chains, shackles and pumps falling during maintenance.
Given the size, scope and diversity of water management across all industries, we believe that our product will be highly compatible with and extremely beneficial to any industry where water management is required and where safety, servicing, maintenance and cost effectiveness are priorities.
With this versatility, the SAFELIFTER will be an invaluable device across a wide range of heavy industries such as water management, mining, oil, gas, and construction where hazardous environments include pump/lifting stations, water wells and toxic hazards/liquids in confined spaces, beneath power lines, and any of a number of other hazardous locations.
