Safe operation of mobile elevating work platforms

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- Elevated working positions
- Fields of application
- Structure

Regulations  
- Work and health protection in Europe
- European machinery laws
- Selected legal standards
- Health and safety in companies.
- Hazards and risk assessment   

Accidents   
- Technical causes of accidents
- Organisational causes of accidents
- Maloperation by personnel   

Requirements for the operator  
- General requirements
- Written authorisation
- Health requirements
- The operator as a role model   

Responsibility and liability   
- Duties of the employer
- Duties of skilled and managerial staff
- Duties of the operator
- Potential legal consequences
- Leasing elevating work platforms  

Machine types   
- Truck-mounted elevating work platforms
- Telescopic elevating work platforms
- Articulated telescopic work platforms
- Scissors-type elevating work platforms
- Trailer-mounted elevating work platforms
- Mast elevating work platforms
- Special elevating work platforms    

Technical safety guidelines  
- Potential hazards
- Protection against danger zones
- Safety signs
- Nameplates
- Stabilisers
- Control devices
- Hydraulic devices
- Electrical devices
- Emergency stop switch and emergency control
- Work platforms
- Working area of an elevating work platform    

Operating and handling  
- Correct use
- Driving and working movements
- Daily field test
- Relocation runs
- Getting in and out with the work -platform while raised Effect of loads and forces
- Taking loads onto the platform
- Traffic routes
- Floor openings and depressions
- Excavations and trenches
- Weather conditions
- Public roads
- Dangers from electrical current
- Transports to the worksite
- Securing loads
- Working with motor saws   

Stability against overturning   
- Composition of the soil
- Ground collapse
- Specific support pressure-
- Required supporting surface area
- Using support plates
- Working on a slope
- Special safety devices    

Personal protective equipment (PPE)  
- Provision and use
- Anti-fall protective equipment
- Training through practical exercises
- Discard state   

Testing elevating work platforms  
- Qualified persons
- Professional test
- Expert test
- Documenting the tests   

Checklist „Getting in and out with the work platform while raised“   

Glossary (alphabetical)  

Legal sources and bibliography