Service
Crane and hoist maintenance, load testing, lifting tackle and rigging
Maintenance, repair and load testing of overhead cranes and hoists, inspection and colour-coding of chains, slings and shackles, and rigging of plant items for installation and removal.
Lifting equipment is statutory equipment: cranes, hoists and tackle must be inspected, load-tested and recorded, and a lapsed record stops an outage as surely as a failed brake. Umbusso Engineers maintains, repairs and load-tests overhead cranes and hoists, inspects and colour-codes chains, slings, shackles and lifting beams, and provides rigging crews for the installation and removal of plant items.
We operate our own 15-ton overhead crane in the Benoni South engineering workshop, source mobile cranes through established hire partners for site work, and hold ISO 45001:2018 certification for occupational health and safety management. Rope access and work-at-height capability is supported by a certified equipment inspection regime.
What we do
- Overhead crane and hoist maintenance: brakes, limit switches, wire rope, long-travel wheels and rails, electrics.
- Repair and component replacement, followed by load testing and certification.
- Statutory inspection and colour-coding of lifting tackle — chain slings, wire rope slings, webbing, shackles, eyebolts and lifting beams — with a register for the client.
- Rigging studies and rigging crews for plant installation, removal and outage lifts.
- Mobile crane hire and supervision through our hire partners for site lifts.
Standards, quality and documentation
Inspection, testing and record-keeping follow the Driven Machinery Regulations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, with lifting machines and tackle recorded in a register the client can present at audit. Site lifting is planned with a lifting plan and risk assessment, and our lifting supervisors and riggers hold the qualifications the site requires. Our safety management system is certified to ISO 45001:2018.
Where this service applies on the plant
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A standing capability
This service is delivered as part of our maintenance and fabrication scopes and from our own workshop crane. A dedicated project record will be published when the next order closes out; in the meantime our certifications and management systems are on the Certifications page.
How an order runs
Send the drawing, scope or problem. We reply with questions or a site-visit date.
We confirm the scope, access, outage window and your quality and safety requirements.
Priced quotation with a quality control plan outline so the hold points are agreed before award.
Work under permit-to-work and the agreed plan, with witnessed hold points and progress reporting.
Inspection records, certificates and material traceability compiled into the data book and handed over.
Frequently asked
Do you issue load test certificates?
Yes. Load tests are recorded and the certificate and register entry are issued for the client’s lifting equipment file.
Can you inspect tackle on a rolling programme?
We set up a colour-coding and inspection programme at the interval the regulations and your site standard require, and maintain the register.
Do you supply mobile cranes?
Mobile cranes and specialist lifting plant are sourced through our established hire partners and supervised by our lifting team.
Technical articles on this equipment
Written and reviewed in-house. What fails, why it fails, what the standards require and how to specify the repair.
Statutory inspection and load testing of lifting machines and tackle under the Driven Machinery Regulations
Cranes, hoists and tackle are statutory equipment: the Driven Machinery Regulations set out what must be inspected, tested and recorded, and by whom. This article summarises the obligations and how a plant keeps its lifting-equipment register audit-ready.
Reviewed by the Safety Officer · September 2026
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Request a quotation
Send us the drawing, the scope or the problem. We reply with questions, a site-visit date or a priced quotation — whichever gets you an answer fastest.
Office +27 17 007 0135 · WhatsApp +27 72 535 1598 · info@umbussoengineers.co.za
