IS YOUR HOSE SAFE AND SECURE, WATCH THE VIDEO?
Adrian Moore
Moore-Quip, Quality shotcrete equipment and pumping consumables including Continental hoses and aftermarket shotcrete nozzle systems for Normet and Jacon Shotcrete Equipment, Mining, Civil.
IS YOUR HOSE SAFE AND SECURE, WATCH THE VIDEO?
The risks associated with using the “whip check” type hose whip checks of either steel or nylon manufacture pictured below as a safety device to secure hose connections are extremely dangerous, it is recommended that only the steel or stainless steel “stocking” type of restraint is to be used.
Background
Over a number of years including several instances where failures of whip check type restraints have failed and resulted in fatalities and injured personnel as well as feedback from end users and have concluded the following in regard to whip check:
? Whip checks are particularly prone to failure where the energy of the hose is not
adequately restrained upon failure of the hose joint.
? The effectiveness of a whip check is dependent on correct fitting.
? Whip checks do not adequately restrain thermoplastic hoses due to low contact area coupled with low coefficient of friction of the hose covering.
? As steel whip checks are manufactured from a single cable, they are prone to failure or significant structural damage through vibration on concrete surfaces or other abrasive surfaces also do not stop the hose travelling the full length of the whip check.
HOW SAFE IS YOUR HOSE?
Moore-Quip offer the full rage of Stocking type hose restraints to suit any hose or application, where a hose is held in suspension I.E on a piling machine or a drop hose on a concrete pump an unsecured hose risks your personnel and itinerants to the work place.