What to look at daily, weekly and periodically — and what you are actually looking for on each component.
This section states no threshold values. Discard criteria, torque, lubricants and intervals are specific to your machine and your equipment, and are in the manufacturer’s documentation, on the equipment certificate and in the report from sakkyndig kontroll. Here you learn the method and what a fault looks like — not when something is condemned.
Note too that the annual inspection is not the operator’s job: sakkyndig kontroll is carried out by an independent certified body. See regulations.
Daily
The daily check
What you go through before the first lift, and why it is not paperwork.
Weekly
The weekly check
What the daily check has no time for, but which cannot wait a year.
Periodic / sakkyndig
Sakkyndig kontroll and the annual inspection
The annual inspection is not your job — but knowing it has been done is.
Components
Wire rope — inspection
Where ropes fail first, what a broken wire looks like, and what to do with a finding.
Hooks
Safety catch, throat opening and wear — and why a hook is never straightened.
Bolt inspection
Where bolts loosen, how to spot it without a torque wrench, and who tightens them.
Chain block and hoists
Chain, hook, brake and body — and the one mistake people make with hoists.
Lubrication
What lubrication actually tells you — beyond something being less dry.
Snow and ice
Added load, lost grip, and why falling ice is the most dangerous part.
Checklists
To print, or to use on a phone in the cab. Ticks are not saved — a completed inspection belongs in the employer’s records, not in a browser.