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Top ten tips for reducing mobile plant accidents
Equipment Today provides the US construction industry with information for equipment selection, application, maintenance, asset management, safety and regulation. An excellent article providing the Top Ten Tips on plant safety has been published on their website. The author is John Meola, Corporate Safety Manager for VMS, Inc. (company that pioneered privatised highway asset management in the US).
The 10 tips are under the following headings:1.Getting on and off equipment; 2. Loading/unloading equipment; 3.People crowding the work area; 4.Machine swing radius; 5.Operation on slope; 6.Overhead/buried obstructions; 7.Reversing; 8.Machine overturning; 9.Instability or loss of load; 10.Maintenance operations.
Comment: The text of the article is spread over a number of pages but the content is worth making the effort to access!