Unit 8: Part 2 - Mechanical handling

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Unit 8 Part 2 - Mechanical handling

• NEBOSH Health Safety Certificate

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What you need to know

• The hazards, precautions and procedures necessary
  to ensure safety in the use and maintenance of
• Fork-lift trucks
• Manually operated load moving equipment (sack
  trolleys, pallet trucks, etc)
• Lifts, hoists, conveyors
• and cranes.
• Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment
  Regulations (LOLER) 1998 requirements and
  statutory examination of lifting equipment

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Mechanical handling and lifting equipment

• Conveyor hazards
• In-running nip between drive-rollers and belt
  quarry accidents during cleaning at bottom
  roller
• Entanglement
• With transmission machinery chain sprocket
  drives
• Conveyor belt/slats.
• Elevator hazards
• Because loads lifted to height eg. Materials
  hoist on construction site the loads can fall
  onto people below if a unsecured or b people
  are allowed under elevator while it is working.

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Mechanical handling
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Slat and roller conveyors
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Fork-lift trucks

• Accidents
• Overturning, due to high speed turns, ramp turns,
  driving with raised load, uneven road surface
  most fatals
• see Reg 26 27, PUWER 98 and vehicle restraints,
  ROPS.
• Overloading, unstable loads
• Collisions with
• Overhead obstructions
• Racking systems eg. Wrexham warehouse
• Pedestrians, other vehicles.
• Main causes
• Lack of driver training - see HSEs Rider
  operated lift trucks - operator training COP 26
  and PUWER Regs 89
• Lack of maintenance for safety purposes - PUWER
  98,
• Reg 5

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Fork-lift trucks - overloading
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Fork-lift trucks - overturning
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Fork-lift trucks 2

• Other hazards
• Fire and explosion
• Battery re-charging, or
• Flammable atmosphere eg. Paint factory
• Exhaust gas/fumes in confined spaces
• Hydraulic failure on lifting forks
• Unauthorised use as a working platform see
  example.

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Lifts, hoists

• Definition
• ..incorporates a platform or cage and is
  restricted in its movement by guides. Handbo
  ok
• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
  Regulations 1998
• features
• sound mechanical construction - strength
  stability Reg 4
• interlocked doors or gates - Reg 5
• passenger lifts also need
• automatic braking system to prevent overruns
• min. 2 suspension ropes each can carry max.
  working load
• safety device to support lift if ropes fail.

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