Every sling on one register with its tag checked, its thorough inspection month on file and the next one due, and every sling pulled from service kept on the record your customer opens from a link.
Each date this app counts and each check it runs on a save is listed here with its source and the day we last read it. Where a rule lives in a paid standard, we cite it and keep the same facts in our own layout; we never copy the standard's text or forms.
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sourced rules in this trade, each read on or after Oct 28, 2026.
Periodic inspection (other slings): the interval set in periodic inspection interval (other slings) (months) from the last inspection.Set per customer; no rule fixes this interval.
Your contract
What it checks when you save
Each day before use, a competent person designated by the employer inspects the sling and all its fastenings and attachments for damage or defects, and again during use where service conditions warrant.From 29 CFR 1910.184(d) inspections (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
The employer keeps a record of the most recent month each alloy steel chain sling was thoroughly inspected and makes it available for examination.From 29 CFR 1910.184(e)(3)(ii) inspection record (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
For reference
The thorough inspection of a chain sling, by a competent person, covers wear, defective welds, deformation and increase in length. A sling showing any of them is removed from service at once.From 29 CFR 1910.184(e)(3)(iii) thorough inspection (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
For reference
Each new, repaired or reconditioned alloy steel chain sling is proof tested before use, and the employer keeps the proof test certificate.From 29 CFR 1910.184(e)(4) proof testing (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
Warns on save
A metal mesh sling comes out of service for a broken edge weld or brazed joint, wire diameter reduced 25 percent by abrasion or 15 percent by corrosion, fabric that has lost flexibility, a female handle slot deepened more than 10 percent, a handle eye narrowed more than 10 percent, a 15 percent loss of metal cross section around the handle eye, or a handle distorted out of its plane.From 29 CFR 1910.184(g)(9) metal mesh removal (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
A repaired synthetic web sling goes back into service only after the manufacturer or an equivalent entity proof tests it to twice its rated capacity, and the employer keeps the certificate.From 29 CFR 1910.184(i)(8)(ii) web sling repairs (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
The employer keeps a record of the most recent month each alloy steel chain sling was thoroughly inspected and makes it available for examination.From 29 CFR 1910.184(e)(3)(ii) inspection record (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
Who has to inspect slings before each day's use?
Each day before use, a competent person designated by the employer inspects the sling and all its fastenings and attachments for damage or defects, and again during use where service conditions warrant.From 29 CFR 1910.184(d) inspections (osha.gov), checked Oct 28, 2026.
When the next one is due.
The same count the app keeps on every record, here without an account.
Sling ID or serial, Sling type, Size (rope diameter or web width), Chain size, Rated capacity, vertical hitch, and more.
Inspection
Inspected on, Inspection, Competent person, Result, Disposition, and more.
What your client receives.
The alloy steel chain sling inspection, as the app issues it the moment the inspection is saved: signed, dated and frozen, with what is next due. This one is filled with invented records so you can read it before you sign up.