School Lifting Equipment Safe Working Load and Marking Checklist

Select whether the school uses or controls lifting equipment or lifting accessories. If not applicable, do not complete the remaining checks.

For each item checked, record an identifier or description that distinguishes the lifting machinery or accessory.

For the identified lifting machinery or accessory, check whether the safe working load is clearly marked or whether information indicating the safe working load is otherwise provided with it.

Where the safe working load depends on the configuration of the lifting machinery, check that the safe working load for each configuration is marked or that the relevant information is kept with the machinery.

Where the item is a chain or wire sling, check that the safe working load is marked legibly and indelibly on a durable tag or label attached to the sling, or on the ferrule or master link.

Where a marking cannot show the safe working load, check whether another means indicates the safe working criteria for the equipment. Record whether any colour coding is being used only as an additional feature rather than as the sole indication, unless the equipment is one for which colour coding may be a key element in the marking.

Where an individual lifting accessory remains assembled as part of a specific item of lifting equipment and is not disassembled after use, check that the lifting equipment is marked with a safe working load suitable for all items in its assembly.

Record any missing or illegible marking, missing or illegible information, configuration-specific issue, colour-coding concern, or marking that has been corrected. Include the equipment or accessory identifier and describe the issue or correction.

Select the status for any issue recorded above.