OSHA 1926.251 Visualized and Explained

 

 

 Loading up multifamily buildings takes a lot of materials. Each apartment is likely to have around 20,000 lbs of stuff in it. When you think of the time to carry up 50 lbs of items up four flights of stairs, It might cost $15 for one way at today's wages. Now we divide 20k by 50 and find that it's $6000 to load up the apartment with stuff. And if you have 150 apartments, we are talking about $900,000 to load an apartment building 50 lbs at a time. Not to mention crane days, damage to product and so on. So if you are a contractor that needs to load a building efficiently, you want an elevator. Of course the builidng ones won't be ready. Exterior ones require an operator that might cost 20k a month if you are using a third party. So what to do? 

How about an automated hoist? Our Transport Platforms are automated. Send it up. When it passes the floor before where you wanted to get to, hit the stop button. It will stop at the next floor. No more inputs needed. Then your subs can open the gates and off load the car. When they are done, they can send it down or to another floor from the floor itself. Literally, no operator needed. 

We've had automated elevators in buildings since 1950. It's just insane that we can't have them on jobsites. But today you can. These are built under ANSI A92 and are treated as Scaffold. So if you live in an area that pretends all hoists require an operator in them, this one disagrees. You'll want to check with your local laws, but these should fall under scaffold and not the ANSI A10.5 that might give some jurisdiction to the elevator departments. 

These are 10' long and rated at 4400 lbs in Materials mode.  The motors and gearboxes are SEW Eurodrive. Controls are Schneider and Omron. For a contractor that is obligated to provide hoisting to subs, there is no better way to address that then by pointing to the hoist and giving a five minute training. You'll no longer need to organize and pay for a crane day. If product gets damaged, you can simply let the sub know that you didn't handle it. It's now their responsibility. The Transport Platforms change the game from all angles. 

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