Features
The TRIPOD is a temporary and transportable anchorage point, it is expected to be used to provide an access to confined spaces : tanks, silos, sewers, wells, ...
It complies with the standard EN795 class B and with the Machinery directive 98/37CEE to lift a weight of 200 kg maximum.
All the elements (detent pin ball, strap support, anchor plate, axis of pin,...) cannot be lost.
Il tripod has 3 anchorages:
Anchorage point 1 : two anchoring rings in aluminium located under the tripod head which allows to set a fall arrest system EN363 (retractable fall arrester, sliding fall arrester on flexible anchor line,...) or suspension work devices on ropes.
Anchorage point 2 : constituted of a plate with a support handle already set on an aluminium tube for installation of a rescue device by raising EN1496 Class A (« type » winch (see Fig 1 / Page:3) please see the instructions for use of the winch to install it on the Tripod) or class B. In all cases, to connect the anchor point with the system attached on it, a connector will have to be used (EN362)