Lifting Guides
Toco Lifting · Compliance Guides
Lifting Guides
References to the South African regulations and standards that govern lifting, lashing and rigging equipment. How it must be examined, tested and certified, and what you are required to keep on record.
Toco Lifting’s guides explain the South African regulations and standards that govern lifting, lashing and rigging equipment. They cover how equipment must be examined, tested and certified, and what users are required to keep on record.
Written for site engineers, rigging supervisors, safety officers and procurement teams, drawn from the regulations themselves and from Toco’s work as a registered Lifting Machinery Entity (LME 008).
Our guides
Practical references to the rules that govern lifting equipment in South Africa.
DMR 18 Explained: Lifting Equipment Compliance →
What the regulation requires: examination and testing intervals, the register, the 110 percent overload test, and the difference between an LME and an LMI.
SelectionChain Block or Lever Hoist: Which to Use
When each tool is correct, capacity and fall configurations, and where a lever hoist is the safer choice.
Coming soon
InspectionWire Rope Inspection and Discard Criteria
Broken wire counts, wear, corrosion and deformation, and when a rope must be removed from service.
Coming soon
ComplianceLME and LMI Explained
The legal roles of a Lifting Machinery Entity and a Lifting Machinery Inspector, and what each may certify.
Coming soon
On siteSling and Chain Colour Coding Guide
How the quarterly colour code system works and how to read inspection status at a glance.
Coming soon
Registered with the Department of Labour
Toco Lifting is an approved Lifting Machinery Entity, LME 008.
Qualified inspector on staff
An ECSA registered Lifting Machinery Inspector signs off our testing and certification.
Two decades of supply
Supplying lifting, lashing and rigging equipment across South Africa and the SADC region since 2002.
