The use of wire rope grips should be rejected in applications of such high safety relevance as lifts anyway. and be restricted to securing rope dead ends in the case of wedge sockets.

Temporarily shortening a rope using a wire rope grip is an extremely hazardous exercise which should be avoided without fail. Since the parts of the rope at which a wire grip has previously been located subsequently run over sheaves, there is a high likelihood of the rope fracturing prematurely at these points. Even if rope grips are fixed onto the rope as an aid to installation, this should only ever be done in areas of the rope which do not later run over rope sheaves.