A Private-Label Safety Brand That Prints Its Numbers, from the stamp on the connector to the dated line a competent person reads at inspection.
Rated at 50 kN, the S01813 carabiner shuts its gate behind a locking collar that a snag cannot flick open. Check the stamp before you clip in: ANSI Z359.12-09, CSA Z259.12-11, EN 362:2004. You get the gate figure too, the number most spec sheets omit. Build the connector, the lanyard, and the anchor from one certified chain.
Spidergard is a name you do not know, so turn the connector over and read its stamp before the first tie-off. Read that stamp and you find the rating most connector pages leave off: 3,600 lb across the gate, beside 11,200 lb along the spine.
Match those numbers against the spec line at inspection and you get ANSI Z359.12-09, CSA Z259.12-11, and EN 362:2004 on the connectors. Ask who builds them and the tag answers RK Industries Group, Inc., with ANSI Z359.18-2017 Type T printed on every anchor strap. Crews running daily tie-off cycles rate this hardware 4.74 stars across 664 verified reviews.
An arborist clipping in fifteen times a day gets a twist collar that locks with half a turn, gloves on, and a 1 in gate that swallows a rigging ring. Press a non-locking clip against that same rung and the gate can roll open while your weight is on it.
Sort the tool cords from the fall-arrest cords before either reaches a harness, because both coil the same way in a gang box. Tool lanyards here rate 15 lb and tether a driver so it cannot fall on the crew below. Clip a worker to a fall-arrest lanyard and its tear-stitch pack bleeds the peak to about 900 lb average arresting force. Tag them different colors on day one, because at 40 ft your life depends on which cord you clipped.
Order a single forged hook to replace one retired unit, or a case pack the week a crew fails inspection day. Sort the order by what the tag has to prove, because the connector, the lanyard, and the anchor each carry a different dated standard.
Spidergard hardware is written into site plans by safety managers who defend the choice at audit, under OSHA CFR 1926.502 and 1910.66. A sport climber shopping UIAA-certified protection walks past this shelf, because nothing here carries a recreational climbing rating.
Check the tag on an energy absorber before first tie-off: ANSI Z359.13-2013 prints there, dated, where a competent person reads it.
A competent person reads ANSI Z359.13-2013 off the absorber tag at quarterly inspection, not a slogan off the box. Turn the lifeline housing over in the same check for ANSI Z359.14; the anchor strap label carries ANSI Z359.18-2017 Type T.
3,600 lb across the gate sits stamped beside 11,200 lb on the spine, so nobody buys the S01813 on the flattering axis alone. Load that connector sideways in a snag and the smaller figure carries the whole arrest, which is why both get printed.
Under OSHA CFR 1926.502 and 1910.66, a safety manager writes this hardware into a site plan and defends it at audit. A sport climber shopping UIAA-certified protection walks past this shelf; nothing here carries a recreational climbing rating.
Hang a plated snap hook in a coastal yard for a season and the plating, not bare steel, meets the salt. Spool galvanized cable back onto the lifeline drum after a wet shift, and corrosion-resistant steel handles the anchor-strap end.
Four numbers a competent person can check against the standard before signing a gear log, printed on the hardware itself.
Match a rating to your tie-off point: see the connectors and lifelines.