Thank you for your service
Give this sling a proper retirement
Inspections. Each day before being used, the sling and all fastenings and attachments shall be inspected for damage or defects by a competent person designated by the employer. Additional inspections shall be performed during sling use, where service conditions warrant. Damaged or defective slings shall be immediately removed from service.
While this post is about Disposal of your synthetic slings, we need to touch base on OSHA’s requirement for sling inspections, record keeping and disposal of damaged slings.
Now we can all figure out what “immediately remove from service.” means. But lets go a few steps further.
Move it completely away from the working slings that are still in use. You don’t want it to accidentally be picked up in a rush and used by another operator.
Document it’s removal in your inspection reports.
Disassemble synthetic sling by cutting the eye of the sling. This will, in most cases, render it unusable and unrepairable. If the sling body is lengthy, consider cutting into 4 foot sections to ensure its retirement.
Cut away the ID Tag from the sling.
Now it is ready to toss into recycling.
An incredibly damaged sling in our example, (and way past retirement), but for more information on daily sling inspections, go to https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.184