Hoists

Overview

When you need to lift a heavy load, you need a hoist. The most basic hoist uses wire rope or chain coiled around a winding drum. The principle of the hoist goes back to ancient times – even Roman gladiators and wild animals benefited from hoists to ride up to the arena level of the Roman Coliseum.

Two key causes of accidents with today’s hoists are overloading and loads not safely rigged before being hoisted. Pay attention to the hoist’s lifting capacity and never let the total weight of the load exceed it.

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Brochures/Guides
- Lockout/Tagout
  Gives instruction on how to protect employees who could be injured as a result of the unexpected release of hazardous energy. Lockout and tagout are the primary methods of controlling hazardous energy.
  English Order printed copy 03/09/2021
Fact sheets
- Lockout/tagout for the automotive repair industry
  An overview of how the Control of Hazardous Energy standard applies to the automotive industry, including information about hazardous energy exposures and energy control programs and procedures.
  English 06/10/2009
References
- Rules with requirements
  We get many calls and emails from employers asking the same question. It begins: “Which of your rules have requirements for…” You can finish the sentence with words like “recordkeeping,” “employee training,” and “written documents.” To answer those questions, we’ve organized these rules requirements into a filterable, sortable, searchable table.
  English 05/10/2019

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Final Rules
Interpretations
- Automotive lift hoists
  01/29/1992
- Ladders using hoisting devices
  01/23/2008
- Steel Erection, protection for workers working in locations covered by one or more floors exposed to overhead lifting operations
  05/10/2011
Program Directives
- Control of Hazardous Energy – Enforcement Policy and Inspection Procedures (Lockout/Tagout)
  Purpose: This directive establishes OR-OSHA's enforcement policy for its standards addressing the control of hazardous energy. It instructs OR-OSHA enforcement personnel on both the agency's interpretations of those standards, and on the procedures for enforcing them.
  A-156 12/12/2016
- Fall Protection: Hoisting Employees during Communication Tower Work Activities
  Purpose: This instruction establishes the inspection policy and procedures to ensure uniform enforcement of provisions addressing work activities that involve hoisting employees to and from workstations on communication towers using a personnel hoist.
  A-294 03/26/2020

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