Functions And Description - Tractel stopcable EN353-1 Installations-, Gebrauchs- Und Wartungsanleitung

– Fall arrest with automatic retraction or energy
absorber or mobile fall arrest on a rigid anchorage
support or a mobile fall arrest on a flexible anchorage
support.
– Anchoring
– Connection element
"System for stopping falls": Generic term which
defines one of the following elements:
– Fall arrest harness.
– Fall arrest with automatic recallor energy absorber or
mobile fall arrest on a rigid anchorage support or a
mobile fall arrest on a flexible anchorage support.
– Anchoring
– Connection element
2.2 Pictograms
DANGER: Placed at the start of the line, designed
using instructions intended to avoid damage to
operators, particularly fatal, severe or mild injuries, as
well as environmental damage.
IMPORTANT: Placed at the start of the line,
indicates instructions intended to avoid fault or damage
of the equipment, but not directly putting in danger the
life or health of the operator or that of other people, and/
or being likely to damage the environment.
NOTE: Placed at the start of the line, indicates
instructions intended to ensure the effectiveness or
usefulness of the installation, use or maintenance
operation.

3. Functions and description

The stopcable™ lifeline is a piece of Personal
Protection Equipment (PPE) against falls from height,
including a vertical support anchorage made up of a
cable, intended to secure the operator's movements
on a metallic vertical ladder which is fixed and straight.
It is manufactured and tested according to two
versions respectively compliant with regulations EN
353-1/2014/EN 353 -2/2002. It includes an fall-arrest
device, equipped with a connector, moving along the
anchorage cable and automatically blocking in the case
of the operator falling.
The stopcable™ lifeline may appear in one of the
following four fitting versions (see page 3):
I. Anchorage support fixed on upper and lower ends of
the ladder,
II.I. Anchorage support fixed on the upper end of the
ladder and weighted away from the lower end of the
ladder,
III. Anchorage support fixed on the upper end away
from the ladder and fixed on the lower end to the
ladder,
IV. Anchorage support fixed on the upper end away
from the ladder and weighted away from the ladder
at the lower end.
DANGER: The
support more than one operator at a time. The operator
secured from falling on the stopcable™ lifeline should
not exceed 150kg including equipment.
stopcable™ lifelines break down into eight versions in
accordance with the following installation and usage
specifications:
Type of installation:
– Type R: installation on a rigid anchorage support
according to EN353-1/2014
– Type F: installation on a flexible anchorage support
according to EN353-2/2002
Type of cable:
– Type G: Galvanised rope for installations with
moderate corrosion risk.
– Type S: Stainless steel rope when there is risk of
salt spray corrosion, or offshore and in a chlorinated
environment.
Option:
– Type A: line installation with an energy absorber line.
stopcable™ lifeline cannot
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