Safe operation of mobile elevating work platforms
Introduction
- 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
