On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, at 22:58, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Should an outfitter sell climbing ropes rated in Newtons?
I have a feeling that things like safety harnesses (for people working at height), fall-arrest systems etc are rated in Newtons etc. It's probably because it's not just the static load of someone dangling on the end of a rope that matters, but the strain they put on it if they've fallen however far before the system tries to arrest their fall. Adverts might not say this though; they might instead say that an item meets such-and-such a use standard. That in turn might dictate that a wearer shouldn't be more than (say) 120 kg nor be falling more than 20m. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
