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Great, Thanks Angela. I have cut and pasted this response to the manager.
Can you tell me what a ‘trained and competent person’ has to do to be deemed thus? Will a physio do? Or an RN?
LizReply from Nathan at Active Health Care
‘Active Healthcare can organise to have the Superslings tested in the factory in Invercargill. I know Angela Greetham has someone in Tga that tests and relabels as well. Not sure if they do out of town work though.
There is a charge of $140 including freight to Invercargill and back to you for one sling. This obviously get cheaper the more you send at once. We cannot test and relabel other manufactures slings unfortunately as we are the original manufacturer.’Have had a tiny bit of success. Euromedical have contacted their suppliers and this is the reply.
‘I have talked to our supplier of slings and he said the following:
If you cannot read the label anymore on the slings with the purple label, then they are past their use by date
If you have more recent slings on site with a white label, their is a possibility that you could replace the label.’
(This is just for their particular slings though.)
More questions:
Does anyone get their slings ‘load tested’?
Do the slings, as part of the business, depreciate financially yearly? Maybe we should align replacement with depreciation? (This logic might appeal to the accountants?)
I think I will send out an email to all suppliers and see what other responses I get. Watch this space.
LizThanks for responses. Anne I havent been able to find anything on ACC or Worksafe that gives any specifics…all very generic. I havent talked to suppliers yet as figured they would have vested interest in replacing slings more often. I was hoping I would find some clear guidelines somewhere so I can convince the boss! And..yes Eleanor it would be a topic of interest to me and others I am sure. I will fish around a bit more. Liz
