What are the safety rule for heavy equipment?

Wear high-visibility clothing when working around heavy mobile equipment. Avoid positioning themselves in a blind spot or riding on moving equipment. Avoid setting up their work area near heavy mobile equipment. The operator may not see them if they are bending over to work or grab a tool.

What is considered heavy mobile equipment?

Heavy equipment means self-propelled, self-powered or pull-type equipment and machinery, including generators weighing 5,000 pounds or more, primarily employed for construction, industrial, and forestry uses (e.g., water tender, backhoe, mini-excavator, and SWECO tractor).

What are the guidelines to be followed when working with large equipment?

Top 10 Safety Tips for Heavy Equipment Operators

• Avoid Blind Spots.
• Maintain Constant Communication.
• Wear Seat Belts.
• Use the Three-Point Rule for Mounting and Dismounting.
• Load and Unload Safely.
• Do a Pre-Work Check for Hazards.
• Avoid Unexpected Start-Up.
• Know and Obey Load Limits.

What is a safe distance from heavy equipment?

20 Feet or 2 Eyes: Fiore & Sons practice calls for us to keep 20 feet between all heavy equipment and trucks while on site or use 2 eyes of a spotter to help get in close to execute the work. Never drive up under the blind spot and turning radius of a pieces of heavy equipment like a scraper, excavator or crane.

What are the 3 main hazards of heavy machinery operation?

Some are site or machinery specific. Immediate safety risks around heavy equipment are noise, dust and heat. Proper hearing, breathing and thermal protection go a long way to reducing personal health and safety issues.

What are the health and safety considerations of a heavy equipment operator?

Safety Tips Train your drivers/operators to know their blind spots. Use a signaller where necessary, and make sure the signaller has been trained on standard hand signals. Make sure your drivers/operators wear their seatbelts. Have your workers wear high-visibility clothing as required.

What vehicles are considered heavy equipment?

Generally speaking, the follow vehicles are typical of what could be described as heavy equipment:

• Backhoes.
• Wheel Loaders.
• Scrapers.
• Excavators.
• Bulldozers.
• Road Graders.
• Rock Trucks.
• Skid Steers.

What vehicles are considered heavy?

For example, heavy vehicles include:

• semi-trailers.
• B-double freight trucks.
• road trains.
• passenger buses.
• vehicle carriers.
• livestock and other agricultural vehicles.
• mobile cranes and other special purpose vehicles.

How far away should you remain from Mobile powered equipment at all times?

This provision requires that equipment be operated so that a clearance of 10 feet from any energized overhead line is maintained. This clearance distance must be increased by 4 inches for every 10 kilovolts over 50 kilovolts.

What is the danger zone around heavy equipment?

A danger zone is essentially the area surrounding heavy equipment that other workers and personnel should avoid. If someone enters the danger zone while you are operating heavy equipment, stop and ask them to move. In some cases, a spotter may be used to assist the operator of heavy equipment.

What are the four types of large equipment?

Types of Heavy Construction Equipment Backhoe. Dragline Excavator. Bulldozers.

What is a heavy commercial vehicle?

heavy commercial vehicle means a motor vehicle in excess of 2-1/2 tons used for commercial purposes such as transportation of goods and wares.

What is classified as a heavy truck?

Any vehicle exceeding 26,001 pounds is considered heavy-duty. Examples include city transit buses, mobile cranes, cement mixers, refuse trucks, and tractors designed to pull refrigerated trailers, dry vans and other equipment.

What is heavy commercial vehicle?

Heavy duty commercial trucks are used to transport heavy commodities such as steel cement, fertilizers etc. Hence, a heavy commercial vehicle is the high volume & value segment of the Indian trucking industry. The HCV segment ranges between 18.5T to 55T GVW, comprising haulage, multi-axle, tipper and tractor-trailer.

What is the minimum clearance that needs to be maintained from equipment to overhead powerlines?

10 feet
Always maintain a distance of at least 10 feet from overhead lines and more than 10 feet if the voltage to ground is over 50 kilovolts (50,000 volts). The higher the voltage, the greater the distance that is needed between the lines and the workers.

What is the recommended following distance when using a lift truck?

The safe traveling distance between forklifts is approximately three truck lengths, or about a time-lapse of three seconds when passing the same point. More specifically, it’s about 20 feet between forklifts. The three-second rule is the same for automobiles on the road and is just as important for forklifts.