AAK Safety Smartline Instrucciones De Uso página 5

Company AAK Safety AS
Document name Instructions for use, Smartline
Document number TEC-GL-001-011-ENG-15
Date 05.05.2017
Instructions for use, Smartline
In situations where a person is unconscious or otherwise
unable to descend by themselves, he/she can be rescued by
another person using the Smartline:
1) Approach the person to be rescued. Use appropriate fall
protection equipment to protect yourself from falling.
2) Use the Smartline set belonging to the injured person if
possible. Open the bag. Read the short version of the
instructions for use if you are unsure about the correct
use.
3) Place the anchor sling around a structure and into the
green karabiner which is attached to the descender
device. The Smartline hangs upside down as shown in
fig 5.
4) Connect the silver karabiner at the end of the line to an
attachment point on the harness of the person to be
evacuated. On full body harnesses, an upper
attachment point should be used. Ensure that both
karabiners are locked.
5) Take out any slack in the line by pulling the free end of
the line as shown in figure 5. It is important that
dynamic loads are avoided.
6) If the injured person is hanging in a harness, his safety
line has to be removed before he can be lowered. To
make this possible, the weight of the injured person
must be transferred to the Smartline. This is done in two
different ways depending on the type of fall protection
equipment used. It is important that users are trained
and supervised in these methods:
Person hanging in adjustable fall protection
•
equipment
After the line between the anchor and the
person to be evacuated is tightened as much as
possible (figure 5), adjust the loaded fall
protection equipment so that the person is
lowered until his weight is fully onto the
Smartline. Then the other fall protection
equipment can be removed and the descent
started.
Person hanging in none adjustable fall protection
•
equipment
In such situations the Smartline can be used as
a pulley system to transfer the load from the fall
protection equipment to the Smartline. This is
done by making a loop of the line below the
descender and threading it through the
karabiner attached to the harness. By pulling
the line as showed in figure 7 (alternatively
figure 8) the person can be lifted and the load
transferred from the fall protection equipment
onto the Smartline. The person only needs to
be lifted a small distance before the fall
TEC-GL-001-011-ENG-15
Figure 4 Controlling the descent
Figure 5 Tighten the rope between the
Smartline descender device and the injured
person.
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