Lock Onto the Load.
Keep Hands Off the Hazard.
Magnetic hands-free tools for guiding, positioning and controlling everyday ferrous loads — without putting the hand on them.
A worker sees a steel component moving slightly out of position.
The natural reaction is immediate. Reach out. Hold it. Steady it. Push it. Pull it. Guide it into place.
The movement may take only a few seconds. But in those few seconds, the hand can enter the exact space where industrial hand injuries occur — between a moving load and a fixed object, beneath a shifting plate, beside a sharp edge, or within the path of a component that can swing, rotate or slide unexpectedly.
The problem is not that the worker wants to control the load.
The problem is that the hand has become the control interface.
Lock the tool onto the load — and control the load without putting the hand on it.
Ordinary Tasks. Real Exposure.
Some of the most persistent hand exposures in industry do not come from unusual lifting operations. They come from tasks performed repeatedly — and because they are familiar, the exposure can become normalised.
If the hand doesn't need to be the interface, give the task another interface.
RiggerLock™ turns separation into part of the method. The magnetic head engages the surface. The shaft establishes working distance. The handle gives the operator control. Together: LOCK → CONTROL → RELEASE.
Not every task requires the same magnetic interface.
Some require movement through changing angles. Some involve repeated attachment and release. Others benefit from deliberate ON/OFF engagement. That is why RiggerLock™ is a family — not a single product.
RiggerLock™ Quick Detach
Some industrial operations are repetitive. Attach. Guide. Position. Release. Move to the next component. In these tasks, disengagement is part of the operating cycle. Having to work around a slow or awkward release mechanism returns time pressure — and the temptation to use a hand instead.
RiggerLock™ Quick Detach provides a magnetic control point built around fast, secure attach and release — keeping workers away from pinch and crush exposure through the full sequence.
Applications include guiding suspended steel plates, positioning beams and billets, controlling long steel sections, and handling sharp plate edges after cutting or shearing. Quick Detach makes magnetic hands-free control a repeatable work sequence — not an occasional intervention.
RiggerLock™ Flex
Industrial loads rarely remain at one convenient angle. A steel section may rotate. A suspended component may change orientation. The operator may need to move relative to the load. A rigid connection forces compensation through the arms and wrists — fatigue that builds across a shift.
RiggerLock™ Flex introduces articulation between the magnetic head and the operator interface. The flex joint allows natural wrist movement and precise guidance, while the magnetic head provides multi-position contact with steel across changing angles.
The principle is straightforward: the tool should accommodate the movement required by the task, not force the operator's wrist to accommodate the tool.
RiggerLock™ Switch
Some tasks require a different kind of control: positive magnetic engagement while positioning a component — and deliberate disengagement when the operation is complete.
RiggerLock™ Switch introduces manually controlled magnetic ON/OFF engagement. Instead of mechanically overcoming a permanently engaged connection, the operator decides when the magnetic interface is active.
Particularly relevant for controlled positioning — alignment, fit-up, tack welding and bolt tightening — where the operator needs to hold a precise relationship with the component, then cleanly disengage. This extends magnetic hands-free thinking beyond suspended-load guidance into everyday fabrication, assembly and maintenance work.
Distance Alone Doesn't Make a Good Hand-Safety Tool.
If a tool is unnecessarily heavy, poorly balanced, too long, difficult to grip, or forces awkward wrist and elbow movement, operators will struggle to use it consistently. The exposure problem is not solved by a tool that lives in the toolbox.
Design decisions that appear simple determine not merely whether a tool can contact steel — but how naturally the operator can use it in the field.
The design objective is a hands-free tool that behaves, as far as practical, like a natural extension of the operator's hand — while keeping that hand away from the hazard.
What workers actually use their hands for — and what RiggerLock™ replaces.
For each of these, RiggerLock™ asks one question:
Can we maintain the required control while relocating the worker's hand?
The Control Function Doesn't Disappear
Selecting the RiggerLock™ Interface
This is not a substitute for application assessment — it is a way of beginning with the task rather than the catalogue. Surface condition, working distance, required control and environmental factors all need to be evaluated for the specific application.
Important: RiggerLock™ is not a lifting magnet
RiggerLock™ tools are intended for guidance, positioning and hands-free control — not for supporting or lifting a suspended load. The lifting equipment supports the load. RiggerLock™ helps the worker control it from a distance.
Magnetic performance can also be affected by actual contact conditions. Surface contamination, loose rust, scale and other conditions can influence engagement. Suitability should be evaluated for the specific application.
The Biggest Opportunity May Not Be the Extraordinary Lift.
It may be the ordinary task performed hundreds of times. Every time somebody instinctively reaches toward steel to just hold it, just straighten it, just guide it, or just move it a little — there is an opportunity to ask whether the hand needs to be there at all.
RiggerLock™ turns that question into a practical method. One that is repeatable, field-proven, and designed around how operators actually work.
The RiggerLock™ Family
Not with your hands.
Have an everyday steel-handling task where hands are still entering the hazard zone?
Share the task, component, working distance and required movement with PSC Hand Safety India. We can help map the hand exposure and identify the appropriate RiggerLock™ interface for your operation.