Part of Hand Safety First — a brand owned by PSC Hand Safety India Private Limited. Built around one principle: keep hands away from the hazard before injury happens.
In lifting and rigging operations, the lift itself is often not the most dangerous moment for the hand. The higher-risk moment often comes later.
When the load is almost in place, workers reach in to guide, steady, align, rotate, or correct it. This is where hands enter pinch points, closing gaps, sling interfaces, hook zones, frame edges, pipe surfaces, corners, and suspended load movement zones.
RiggerSafe® was created to reduce this exposure. It gives workers a rigid hands-free interface to push, pull, guide, and position loads without placing hands directly on the load, sling, hook, frame, pipe, skid, basket, or pinch-point interface.
It is not a lifting device. It does not bear load weight. It is a hands-free load control tool used during the guiding, pushing, pulling, positioning, and stabilising phase — after the crane has taken the strain and the load is approaching its landing point.
If a suspended load needs to be guided into position, ask first: does a hand need to touch the load?
If the answer is no — a hands-free push/pull tool such as RiggerSafe® should be considered before workers place hands into the hazard zone.
Engineering the hand out of the hazard is the primary control method. Where hands enter a suspended load zone for guidance or positioning, a push/pull hands-free tool replaces direct contact with controlled standoff distance.
RiggerSafe® sits within a connected ecosystem that spans safety doctrine, industrial products, and field tools.
The education and knowledge platform that defines the safety method behind the product range. Hand Safety First® explains the principles of engineering the hand out of the hazard — identifying where hands enter hazardous tasks and applying practical controls to reduce exposure before injury occurs.
The industrial product company that delivers engineered controls, no-touch tools, hands-free load control solutions, and hand exposure reduction products across Indian and international industrial sectors. PSC provides the physical implementation of the control-method framework that Hand Safety First defines.
PSC's dedicated product brand for hands-free push/pull load control in rigging and suspended load positioning tasks. The tool used in the field when the doctrine calls for distance-based control at the load interface.
Hand Safety First® explains the doctrine. PSC Hand Safety provides the industrial implementation. RiggerSafe® is the hands-free push/pull load control tool used in the field.
RiggerSafe® is especially useful wherever suspended loads require close-range manual guidance, final positioning, or stabilisation. The exposure it addresses is present across every sector that lifts.
Taglines remain important in many lifting operations. The correct approach is not "tool or tagline" — it is using the right control at the right phase of the lift.
Together, taglines and RiggerSafe® help reduce the need for direct hand contact across the full lift-to-land sequence. Neither replaces the other.
Hand Safety First® defines the safety doctrine that RiggerSafe® implements in the field. Four principles underpin this approach.
The first line of defence is to remove the need for hand contact entirely — not to protect the hand while it stays in the hazard zone. Engineering controls take priority over personal protective equipment.
Identify where hands enter hazardous tasks across the work sequence. Exposure mapping precedes control selection — you cannot reduce what you have not identified.
Every task has a hand-entry point — the moment where the hand crosses into the hazard zone. Identifying this point precisely is the precondition for replacing it with a distance-based control method.
Where direct hand contact can be replaced by a tool that creates standoff distance between the operator's hand and the hazard, that replacement should be made. RiggerSafe® is the implementation of this principle for suspended load positioning.
Send PSC a task description, photo, or video of your current load positioning method and receive a hands-free load control recommendation for your specific operation.