By
Rocka Devices Pty Ltd
Designed in
Australia
Description
Klinch Tool Tethers allows users to safely and securely carry and use tools at heights, and manage tools effectively. It provides the flexibility of using multiple tools and the ability to dock and switch the tools between hands, all the while ensuring the tools are safely connected to the user or their work platform. The Klinch system consists of attachment points (docks) that are worn on each wrist and docks that can be worn on a toolbelt, or screwed/bolted to a structure. The locking system allows the user to carry and use multiple tools safely without the risk of droppage.
Key Features
and/or Benefits
The innovative mechanism by which Klinch Tool Tethers work ensures that tools are connected at all times to at least one point. This allows workers to uses tools at heights and ensure that if they are to accidenty let go of their tools they will not fall further than the length of the lanyard (150mm). The system will not unlock unless it has another connection point to switch to which encourages safe behaviour by workers whilst not limiting their ability to carry out their work.
In maintaining the tool connection at all times the Klinch Tool Tether system reduces risks associated with falling tools. Conventional methods of securing tools via lanyards also provide a similar solution, however they allow tools to drop the length of the lanyard before they are arrested. Lanyards can be from 800-2000mm long meaning the tool travels a substantual distance and developes a large amount of momentum before it is stopped. Klinch Tool Tethers only allow the tool to drop 150-200mm which poses less of a risk.
Professional Industrial tools are not generally cheap throw away items. The Klinch Tool Tether system allows workers to secure their valuable tools while not inhibiting the workers from using the tool as required and intended. It prevents minor accidents such as cordless drills sliding off a roof or dropping off a ladder, or losing a valiable set of fishing pliers overboard. The system is also a deterant to opportunistic theft of tools on the jobsite.
It prevents tools from dropping onto or swinging into glass or other building components.
It prevents tools from dropping onto or swinging into glass or other building components.
Traditional methods of connection tools involve having one long lanyard per tool. This lanyard must be long enough to reach from the connection point on the user or work platform and to where the tool is being used. Multiple tools means multiple lengths of lanyards which is prone to entanglement. As Klinch Tool Tethers only have a short lanyard which has a cover over the rope they pose less of a risk of being tangled. Each tool has its own connection dock and switches its connection onto the user allowing it to go where the user needs to go.
Current recommended practices for Industrial Rope Access involve two abseiling ropes; one to support the workers body weight via a connection to a harness and/or bosuns chair, and one as a safety line connected to the workers safety harness. The worker is connected to these lines by mechanical devices that run on the lines. The Klinch Tool Tether system is designed to prevent tool lanyards from becoming entangled in these lines, which pose a safety risk and take time and loss of efficiency in untangling.