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Fork Mounted Work Platforms
Fork Mounted Work Platforms - For the producer to follow requirements, there are certain standards outlining the requirements of lift truck and work platform safety. Work platforms can be custom made as long as it meets all the design criteria according to the safety standards. These custom designed platforms have to be certified by a licensed engineer to maintain they have in fact been made according to the engineers design and have followed all standards. The work platform has to be legibly marked to show the name of the certifying engineer or the producer.
Certain information is needed to be marked on the machine. For instance, if the work platform is custom built, a unique code or identification number linking the certification and design documentation from the engineer has to be visible. When the platform is a manufactured design, the serial or part number so as to allow the design of the work platform ought to be marked in able to be associated to the manufacturer's documentation. The weight of the work platform while empty, in addition to the safety requirements which the work platform was made to meet is among other necessary markings.
The rated load, or likewise called the maximum combined weight of the equipment, people and supplies acceptable on the work platform need to be legibly marked on the work platform. Noting the minimum rated capacity of the forklift that is needed so as to safely handle the work platform could be determined by specifying the minimum wheel track and forklift capacity or by the make and model of the forklift that could be utilized with the platform. The method for connecting the work platform to the fork carriage or the forks must likewise be specified by a licensed engineer or the producer.
Different safety requirements are there so as to ensure the floor of the work platform has an anti-slip surface. This ought to be located no farther than 8 inches above the standard load supporting area of the tines. There should be a way provided in order to prevent the work platform and carriage from pivoting and rotating.
Use Requirements
Just qualified operators are certified to operate or work these machines for hoisting employees in the work platform. Both the lift truck and work platform should be in compliance with OHSR and in good working condition prior to the use of the system to hoist workers. All producer or designer directions which relate to safe use of the work platform should also be available in the workplace. If the carriage of the forklift is capable of pivoting or rotating, these functions have to be disabled to maintain safety. The work platform needs to be secured to the fork carriage or to the forks in the specific manner provided by the work platform producer or a professional engineer.
Another safety standard states that the combined weight of the work platform and rated load must not go beyond 1/3 of the rated capacity for a rough terrain forklift. On a high lift truck combined loads should not go beyond 1/2 the rated capacities for the reach and configuration being used. A trial lift is required to be performed at each and every task site instantly before hoisting employees in the work platform. This practice ensures the lift truck and be located and maintained on a proper supporting surface and also to be able to guarantee there is sufficient reach to place the work platform to allow the job to be finished. The trial practice also checks that the mast is vertical or that the boom can travel vertically.
A test lift should be carried out at each job location right away prior to hoisting workers in the work platform to ensure the forklift can be positioned on an appropriate supporting surface, that there is enough reach to place the work platform to allow the job to be finished, and that the mast is vertical or the boom travels vertically. Using the tilt function for the mast can be used so as to assist with final positioning at the task location and the mast has to travel in a vertical plane. The trial lift determines that adequate clearance can be maintained between the work platform and the elevating mechanism of the lift truck. Clearance is even checked according to overhead obstructions, scaffolding, storage racks, and whichever surrounding structures, as well from hazards like for example live electrical wires and energized machine.
Systems of communication should be implemented between the forklift driver and the work platform occupants to efficiently and safely manage operations of the work platform. When there are multiple occupants on the work platform, one person ought to be selected to be the main person accountable to signal the lift truck operator with work platform motion requests. A system of hand and arm signals must be established as an alternative mode of communication in case the main electronic or voice means becomes disabled during work platform operations.
Safety measures dictate that workers must not be transferred in the work platform between task locations and the platform has to be lowered to grade or floor level before any person enters or exits the platform as well. If the work platform does not have guardrail or enough protection on all sides, each and every occupant has to be dressed in an appropriate fall protection system secured to a selected anchor spot on the work platform. Staff must perform functions from the platform surface. It is strictly prohibited they do not stand on the guardrails or use whichever tools so as to add to the working height on the work platform.
Finally, the forklift driver must remain within 10 feet or 3 metres of the lift truck controls and maintain visual communication with the lift truck and with the work platform. If the lift truck platform is occupied the driver has to adhere to the above standards and remain in communication with the work platform occupants. These tips aid to maintain workplace safety for everybody.
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