Industrial rigging is one of those activities that, to outsiders, seems straightforward — using various equipment like ropes, chains, slings, and hooks, all aimed at shifting a load from one location (point A) to another (point B). Anyone who has spent just a single day at a heavy industrial site knows for a fact that rigging goes way beyond just the lifting – it is without regret. This is because when the load is airborne, there’s no return switch. Unfortunately, most rigging incidents at Refineries, Power Plants, Ship Yards, Factories or Warehouses do not occur due to equipment failure, rather, because people make mistakes. And the most unfortunate part? These mistakes tend to get made over and over with no end in sight simply because people take rigging too lightly or worse yet, depend on assumptions instead of facts.
Mistake 1: Guessing the Load Weight Instead of Confirming It
This load estimation mistake is arguably
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