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Load Restraint documentation

Load restraint

Load Restraint Guidelines

Load Restraint Guidelines (LRGs) provide guidance for the safe transportation of British Steel products, and are engineered and tested to EN 12195-1 standards.

Load Restraint GuidelinesIssueDriver Sheet
LRG-0006 Square billets & blooms1
LRG-0014 Multi-product loads1
LRG-0016 Bundled sections using chains1
LRG-0017 Bundled sections using webbing straps1
LRG-0020 Rail1
LRG-0027 Crane rail1
LRG-0028 Bundled billets1
LRG-0029 Bullhead rail1
LRG-0033 Slab1
LRG-0034 Blooms3
LRG-0035 Grouser bars1
LRG-0036 Billets & blooms using chains1
LRG-0039 Scrap rail1
LRG-0042 Bulb flats1
LRG-0101 Wire rod in coil (Issue 1) 20231Flatbed Trailers
Curtainsider 12 coil load
Curtainsider 11 coil load
Intermodal 12 coil load
Intermodal 11 coil load
LRG-0102 Non-bundled sections using chains1

Technical Advice Documents

Technical Advice Documents (TADs) are either site-specific, product-specific, equipment-specific or route-specific – and must not be used outside their intended use.

Technical Advice DocumentsIssue
TAD-0021 Winter weather guidance - Non banded sections1
TAD-0045 Base timber retrieval1
TAD-0117 FN Steel billets1
TAD-0127 Steel railway sleepers1
TAD-0128 Italy slab loads1
TAD-0129 Lackenby Port Movements3
TAD-0130 Narrow slab1
TAD-0134 Long Products 6m rule guidance1
TAD-0139 Non-bundled sections using webbing straps1
TAD-0140 Blooms using chains - 6m lengths1

Technical Information Sheets

Technical Information Sheets (TISs) show the minimum standard of equipment to be used on British Steel sites for any load restraint activity.

Technical Information SheetsIssue
TIS-0001 Belly-wrapping2
TIS-0002 Timber dunnage2
TIS-0003 Webbing straps & tensioners1
TIS-0004 Chains and tensioners4
TIS-0005 Edge protection1
TIS-0006 Well boards for well trailers1
TIS-0007 Controlling vertical gaps in loads2
TIS-0008 Anti-slip matting1
TIS-0009 Lashing points1
TIS-0010 Trailer headboards1
TIS-0011 Side pins and deck stanchions1
TIS-0012 Axle loads and weight distribution1
TIS-0013 Incident checklist1