Notes On Safety; Inspection And Maintenance; Responsibility - PROEL AXIOM - VERSION 2.0 Manual

5. Guide to System Setup

5.5 Notes on safety

Although this manual contains a lot of useful information for the suspension of vertical array systems, it
is not enough to cover the subject in all its complexity: it is therefore necessary to rely on qualified and
expert operators when you need to mount a vertical array. The user/installer will have the responsibility
of verifying all load limits and procedures constraints related to the suspension of the array. We took
great care in choosing the materials and manufacturing our systems in order to provide a high safety
level.
Incorrect use of the suspension system of the array can cause serious injury to
Proel's products have been designed and tested to exclude any critical breakage in a normal use
cycle including periodical mechanical inspections. All system parts have safety margins suited to the
kind of use envisioned by the specifications provided by this manual. The configurations suggested
throughout the manual have been verified by calculator modelling and by operative tests. Proel advises
to take all local, national and federal laws into account when suspending acoustic enclosures. Always
verify that pins 94AXMSP1 have been correctly inserted before you try and lift any AXIOM system array
off the ground.

5.5.1 Inspection and maintenance

Every time any AXIOM system has to be suspended, a thorough inspection of all materials used, includ-
ing the overhead structure that will hold it, should be carried out, so to rule out any possibility of aging,
deformation, corrosion or break. With a frequency of use equal to twenty times per month in the respect
of all instructions and limitations indicated in this manual provided by Proel SpA, the expected life span
of Flying Bar KPTAX3210 (and of Flying Bar KPTAX3210S) should be five years. Yet, qualified operators
indicated by Proel itself should carry out an annual inspection to verify the general state of repair of the
structure and eventually arrange for maintenance, and especially should ascertain the integrity of the
welded joints. Inspections should proceed with the following order:
• Identification of the suspension device,
• control of the conditions of all components and devices, in reference to damage, consumption,
corrosion or any other problem,
• test functionality of mechanism,
• test of welded joints and evaluation of any prospective crack,
• test of all connecting pins and couplings and evaluation of any possible deformation, consumption
or crack.
If the inspection were to reveal any anomaly or defect of the components, all faulty parts will have to
be replaced with Proel original spare parts.

5.6 Responsibility

All efforts made to design the components and optimize practicality of use do not change the fact that
only expert qualified operators should work the suspension system after having read this manual care-
fully.
Proel recommends abiding to every national, federal and local law when suspending
persons and damage to property.
AXIOM system arrays.
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